Performance of Coupled Product Development Activities with a Deadline

Nitindra R. Joglekar, Ali A. Yassine, Steven D. Eppinger and Daniel E. Whitney
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Nitindra R. Joglekar: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215
Ali A. Yassine: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
Steven D. Eppinger: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
Daniel E. Whitney: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139

Management Science, 2001, vol. 47, issue 12, 1605-1620

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.

Keywords: Product Development; Design Process Modeling; Concurrent/Sequential/Overlapping Development; Component and System Performance Generation; Software Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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