TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance of coupled product development activities with a deadline
AU - Joglekar, Nitindra R.
AU - Yassine, Ali A.
AU - Eppinger, Steven D.
AU - Whitney, Daniel E.
PY - 2001/12
Y1 - 2001/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Component and System Performance Generation
KW - Concurrent/Sequential/Overlapping Development
KW - Design Process Modeling
KW - Product Development
KW - Software Engineering
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U2 - 10.1287/mnsc.47.12.1605.10240
DO - 10.1287/mnsc.47.12.1605.10240
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035707626
SN - 0025-1909
VL - 47
SP - 1605
EP - 1620
JO - Management Science
JF - Management Science
IS - 12
ER -