Performance of coupled product development activities with a deadline

Nitindra R. Joglekar, Ali A. Yassine, Steven D. Eppinger, Daniel E. Whitney

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    Abstract

    This paper explores the performance of coupled development activities by proposing a performance generation model (PGM). The goal of the PGM is to develop insights about optimal strategies (i.e., sequential, concurrent, or overlapped) to manage coupled design activities that share a fixed amount of engineering resources subject to performance and deadline constraints. Model analysis characterizes the solution space for the coupled development problem. The solution space is used to explore the generation of product performance and the associated dynamic forces affecting concurrent development practices. We use these forces to explain conditions under which concurrency is a desirable strategy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1605-1620
    Number of pages16
    JournalManagement Science
    Volume47
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Dec 2001

    Keywords

    • Component and System Performance Generation
    • Concurrent/Sequential/Overlapping Development
    • Design Process Modeling
    • Product Development
    • Software Engineering

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