Decision-Making for Successful Product Development

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Powell ◽  
Dennis M. Buede
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Good Decision ◽  
Front End ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Made In

Success is the objective during product development and good decision-making is the “yellow brick road” that leads to success. Decisions are used by systems engineers and project managers to guide and control events that occur during product development. Mistakes due to an improper definition of decisions made in the front end of the development process can have substantially negative impacts on the total cost of the system and its success with users and bill payers. The purpose of this paper is to define key decisions that can aid project managers and systems engineers during product development.

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.

Serienreifmachung in der Nutzfahrzeug-Industrie*/Attaining production-readiness - Standardization in the commercial vehicle industry: problems, challenges and solutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (03) ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
T. Steinhäußer ◽  
G. Reinhart
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Commercial Vehicle ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Selection Of

Aufbauend auf einer zeitlichen und inhaltlichen Abgrenzung im Produktentstehungsprozess (PEP) stellt der Fachbeitrag verschiedene Probleme vor, die bei der Serienreifmachung allgemein und in der Nutzfahrzeug-Industrie im Speziellen auftreten. Anschließend werden Herausforderungen abgeleitet, die es bei der Entwicklung eines Konzepts für die Serienreifmachung in der Nutzfahrzeug-Industrie zu bewältigen gilt.   Based on a definition of the process of attaining production-readiness in the context of the product development process, this article presents several problems that occur during the process of attaining production-readiness in general and specifically in the commercial vehicle industry. Furthermore, a selection of challenges is derived from the presented problems and an approach to cope with these challenges is suggested.

New Product Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 192-215
Author(s):  
Robert S. Friedman ◽  
Desiree M. Roberts ◽  
Jonathan D. Linton
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Functional Areas

The articles addressed in this chapter on new product development can be classified in two general categories—papers that address the internal processes that assist or hinder development, and those that focus on factors that contribute to a new product’s success or failure in terms of performance and diffusion. We begin with Cooper and Kleinschmidt (1986), who report on the second phase of the New Prod project. Its goal was to examine the nature of the steps that affect the development process and determine how the step-wise structure was modified by the developer companies in order to improve process performance. Clark (1989) looks at project scope, or the extent to which in-house part development affects new product development and overall project performance. The new product development process, as a comprehensive scope of work, is the subject of Millison, Raj, and Wilemon’s (1992) discussion, specifically what the tensions and trade-offs are that occur among different functional areas and how they affect innovative product development. Wheelwright and Clark (1992) provide insight into strategies to plan, focus, and control a firm’s project development, offering an aggregate project plan that promotes management clearly delineating the roles and steps of each participant’s activities. Griffin and Page (1993) offer a practitioner’s framework that identifies and coordinates the many measures of product development success and failure, and holds them up against existing measures used by academic researchers. We then move to Souder’s (1988) article examining the relationship between R&D groups and marketing groups, the nature of the problems between them, and the structure of potentially effective partnerships.

scholarly journals Reframing Project Management Process Paralysis: An Autoethnographic Study of the UK Fire Service

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Barber ◽  
Nicholas Dacre ◽  
Hao Dong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Good Decision ◽  
Organisational Routines ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Uk

The Covid-19 pandemic has created new social, environmental, and economic challenges for organisational routines, and a multilevel perspective of project management processes and decision making is required to untangle the complex nature of projects and phenomena. This research hence aims to investigate reframing of traditional project failure reasoning in pressurised situations by adopting a wider organisational view of the causation of failure using models from high-risk industries which support good decision-making practices and highlighting the project, programme and organisational structures which inherently position a project manager to fail in conditions with cognitive overload, limitations, and constraints. Through an institutional perspective, both individuals (the project managers) and organisations are considered under the influence of normative and cognitive pressures, and both are sources of change.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR (SEMI-) AUTOMATED DERIVATION OF EVALUATION CRITERIA IN REQUIREMENTS MODELLING

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 937-946
Author(s):  
D. Horber ◽  
B. Schleich ◽  
S. Wartzack
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Requirements Modelling

AbstractRequirements act as a limitation of the solution space, which represents the stakeholders’ needs and guides the whole product development process. Therefore, forgotten requirements can lead to wrong decisions when using them as a basis for decision-making. This contribution introduces a novel approach to link the requirement and evaluation criteria models to address this problem. For setting up those criteria consistently, the requirements are classified using natural language processing and derived by a ruleset based on a developed mapping between requirement classes and criteria types.

scholarly journals Reliability Implementation and Cost Trade-off of Product during the Development Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yuan Li ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Weijia Feng ◽  
Huichao Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Optimal Parameters ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Work Input ◽  
Environmental Adaptability

Modern product needs to meet the reliability requirements during the development process. The reliability in this paper refers to an integral view of a product’s reliability, maintainability, supportability, testability, safety and environmental adaptability. However, during the product development process, the two problems are how to evaluate the implementation and how to determine the work input costs of reliability. This paper proposes a method to evaluate the degree of reliability implementation. And it researches the schemes and targets decision-making method based on trade-off analysis. Through establishing and solving trade-off optimization model, the results can help decision makers find the optimal parameters program and cost goals.

Metrics and Software Project Management for the 21st Century

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Process Control ◽  
Product Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Products

Abstract There is general agreement among the experts and practitioners that a crisis exists in Software Engineering. This crisis is in the area of software quality and schedules. How do we better predict product development progress on an ongoing basis? The quick answer is that all project managers need to know these things: • What are the requirements for functionality, cost, and schedule? • Do I have sufficient resources to meet those requirements? • Am I on target to meet those requirements? These questions are particularly critical for companies who produce complex software, such as real-time or process control products. There are ways to ensure that the requirements of schedule, functionality, and cost are met during project development. This paper will discuss project management activities, possible development process, and predictive measurements for project tracking and prediction for complex software products.

Concurrent Design and Manufacturing for Mechanical Systems

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuang-Hua Chang ◽  
Javier Silva ◽  
Ira Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Concurrent Design ◽  
Manufacturing Cost ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Design And Manufacturing

Abstract Conventional product development process employs a design-build-break philosophy. The sequentially executed product development process often results in a prolonged lead-time and an elevated product cost. The proposed concurrent design and manufacturing (CDM) process employs physics-based computational methods together with computer graphics technique for product design. This proposed approach employs Virtual Prototyping (VP) technology to support a cross-functional team analyzing product performance, reliability, and manufacturing cost early in the product development stage; and conducting quantitative trade-off for design decision making. Physical prototypes of the product design are then produced using Rapid Prototyping (RP) technique primarily for design verification purposes. The proposed CDM approach holds potential for shortening the overall product development cycle, improving product quality, and reducing product cost. A software tool environment that supports CDM for mechanical systems is being built at the Concurrent Design and Manufacturing Research Laboratory (http://cdm.ou.edu) at the University of Oklahoma. A snap shot of the environment is illustrated using a two-stroke engine example. This paper presents three unique concepts and methods for product development: (i) bringing product performance, quality, and manufacturing cost together in early design stage for design considerations, (ii) supporting design decision-making through a quantitative approach, and (iii) incorporating rapid prototyping for design verification through physical prototypes.

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