Requirements Culture: A Case Study on Product Development and Requirement Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vittoria Elena ◽  
Chase Wentzky ◽  
Joshua D. Summers
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Tool Company ◽  
The Individual

Abstract A desire to better understand requirements and their uses within product development inspired this case study conducted at a large power tool company. Researchers were interested in determining if a requirements culture existed within the company investigated, how this culture varied across departments, and how individuals at the company viewed requirements in engineering design. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted by five teams of interviewers over the course of two months to answer these questions. Employees in various positions across the company were interviewed in the study including Project Engineers, a CAD Designer, an Industrial Designer, Project Managers, and Vice Presidents. Through a detailed analysis of the interview transcripts and documentation, it was determined that the company did have a definite requirement culture and that the transfer of requirements across departments must remain consistent for the individual groups to be effective. Furthermore, it was found that employee engagement with requirements was more significant with those who were involved in the early stages of product development.

scholarly journals Priorisierung von Anforderungen für die Entwicklung mechatronischer Systeme

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Gräßler
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mechatronic Systems ◽  
Structure Matrix ◽  
Influence Area

In the development of mechatronic systems, risks are caused by changing requirements. In this paper, an approach towards the assessment of such kind of risks is presented. Starting with the requirements list, interactions between requirements are structured in the Requirements Structure Matrix (RSM) semi-automatically. In parallel, requirements are categorized according to their source (“influence area”) and prioritized. This priorization is based on the risk of change. It is characterised by the criteria “dynamics”, “uncertainty of knowledge base” and “relevance for product development”. The approach is validated by two approaches: structured interviews with project managers and developers as well as a case study focusing on a pedelec. By application of the approach, cross-disciplinary relations of requirements can be considered in order to reduce iterations in the development of mechatronic systems such as the pedelec.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

scholarly journals The Influence of Telepathology on Coordination Practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Meyer ◽  
Guy Paré
Keyword(s):  
Project Managers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Work Routines ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Health Care Accreditation ◽  
Key Participants

Background: Coordination between physicians and allied professionals is essential to the effective delivery of care services and is associated with positive patient outcomes. As information technology can radically transform how professionals collaborate, both researchers and health care accreditation bodies are devoting a growing interest to the means of achieving better coordination. Introduction: The primary aim of this study is to explain the extent to which and how coordination practices between pathologists, technologists, and surgeons are transformed when telepathology is being implemented. Materials and Methods: An interpretive case study was conducted. A total of 60 semi-structured interviews with key participants were conducted, in addition to several days of direct observation of telepathology-based intraoperative consultations (IOC). Results: Three major kinds of transformation of coordination practices were observed. First, the telepathology system itself constrains and disrupts coordination routines, such as the presentation of slides. Second, anticipating IOC, proactively performed by the laboratory personnel in traditional settings, requires more formal requests in a telepathology context. Third, local technologists become more autonomous in performing complex macroscopy manipulations and managing the laboratory, tasks traditionally performed by pathologists. Conclusions: Successful coordination of work in a telepathology-based IOC context requires that significant transformations be anticipated and accounted for. Project managers need to formalize new work processes, support the transformations in professional roles and mitigate the major hindrances that small material changes may have on work routines.

scholarly journals Evolution of the Physical and Social Spaces of ‘Village Resettlement Communities’ from the Production of Space Perspective: A Case Study of Qunyi Community in Kunshan

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2980
Author(s):  
Lei Zhou ◽  
Liyang Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Government Power ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

Village resettlement communities (VRCs) are a special type of urban community that the government has promoted considerably during China’s rapid urbanization. This study uses the theory of the production of space as a basis to explore the processes and mechanisms of the physical and social space evolution of VRCs through a case study of Qunyi Community, one of the largest VRCs in Kunshan. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were employed in this study. Results indicate that the coupling relationship between local government power and diversified capital is the fundamental reason that promotes the production of macrophysical space. Moreover, the economic and social relationships among residents promote the reproduction of microsocial space. Landless farmers are the most important spatial producers in the microsocial space. The individual needs and cultural differences of immigrant workers also have significant effects on microspatial production. Furthermore, the production and reproduction of the physical and social spaces, respectively, of VRCs deduce the adjustment relationship among the urbanization processes of land, population, and individuals. Results also indicate that the urbanization of individuals appears to lag behind the previous two processes. This study can provide a theoretical basis for the spatial renovation and management optimization of VRCs, as well as the promotion of a new type of “people-centered” urbanization.

Effectively Using Systems Thinking in New Product Development (NPD)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
New Product ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
A Company

This is a case study concerning technology start-up companies involved in systems thinking during new product development. It is found that systems thinking is pivotal to assisting project managers in moving a project from start to successful completion. The essence of systems thinking is getting all teams in a company to work together as one, to push forward new product development. The study reveals some of the challenges associated with implementing the systems theory in new product development for these companies. This area of study holds promise for continued future research. However, there are still some implementation issues in the real world that have been identified and perhaps are in need of further exploration.

scholarly journals Stimuli of Collaboration in Product Development: A Case Study in a Project Manufacturing Company

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Aki Jääskeläinen ◽  
Jussi Heikkilä ◽  
Anna Hiidensalo ◽  
Otto Thitz
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Focal Company ◽  
Development Initiatives ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThere is already a wide acceptance on the importance of involving supplier and customer companies in product development. Decent understanding prevails on the relationship-oriented approach to product development including various collaboration forms. However, there is less research on the factors explaining the decision of attending to joint product development. In addition, less studies have examined the integrated role of both suppliers and customers in product development initiatives. This study searches answers to the following research questions: 1. What is the role of different actors in product development initiatives? 2. What factors motivate suppliers and customers to participate in product development? The research is carried out as an in-depth qualitative single case study in a large project manufacturing company. It takes the perspective of a focal company striving for product improvements. The first part of the empirical study consists of 15 semi-structured interviews. The second part includes two discursive workshops and builds upon the results of the interviews. This study contributes to the existing research by explaining the challenges and conditions facilitating joint product development with supplier and purchaser companies. The results highlight the role of customers in improving the effectiveness of product development. As a practical contribution, the paper reports the application of workshop method as a facilitator of collaboration between supplier, purchaser (focal company) and customer companies.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION DESIGN IN MOTION: DESIGNING AN ORGANIZATION FOR AGILITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2349-2358
Author(s):  
Saeedeh Shafiee Kristensen ◽  
Mitra Shafiee ◽  
Sara Shafiee
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Organization Design ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Organizational Agility ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Contingency Perspective ◽  
Large Size

AbstractIncreasingly competitive and multifaceted business landscapes and the accelerating pace of innovation require organizations to build in-house capability to evaluate the effectiveness of their design and redesign their organizational structure to drive agile product development. The purpose of this research is to examine how the ability of an organization to implement agile is affected by the organization design. A case study based on 35 semi-structured interviews and field observations at a leading, large-size, Danish software development company was carried out. Adopting the contingency perspective, this paper presents the relevant organizational elements that can increase organizational agility and how the companies can leverage the advantages of the design. Accordingly, it provides a framework that compromises eighteen core organizational practices grouped into four categories (organizational structure and governance, culture and people, IT tools and data infrastructure, and processes) to understand the effect of organization design on agile product development.

scholarly journals Towards an Understanding of the Influence of National Culture on Organizational Viability: An Exploratory Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Bankole O. Awuzie ◽  
◽  
Peter McDermott ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The United Kingdom

Viability connotes a system’s ability to become ultra-stable through effective self-regulation of its internal processes and information processing among its subsystems. Applying this to an infrastructure delivery system (IDS) context, this study proposes that an IDS can successfully deliver on client requirements only if they attain and maintain viability. Research into the influence of National Culture (NC) on an IDS’s viability appears to be lacking; hence this study. Adopting a multi-case study, qualitative research design, this study explores three IDSs involved in the delivery of infrastructure projects in two different NC contexts; Nigeria and the United Kingdom. 25 semi-structured interviews were conducted across the cases to provide for an in-depth understanding of existing interactions between participants in these delivery systems: client/project sponsor; main contractor and sub-contractors and to understand the influence of the prevailing national culture on such interactions, if any. Findings indicate that NC in project delivery environments influence the ability of IDSs to attain viability, especially as it pertains to the sustenance of Team Quality Attributes (TWQ) within the system. Based on these findings, it is expected that in modelling IDSs for viability, adequate consideration should be given to the prevailing NC by project managers and planners.

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