Requirements for Product Development Self-Assessment Tools
The successful execution of complex PD projects still poses major challenges for companies. One approach companies can use to improve their performance is self-assessment tools to optimize their organization and processes. This paper investigates the requirements regarding self-assessment tools for...
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| author | Knoblinger, Christoph Oehmen, Josef Rebentisch, Eric Seering, Warren Helten, Katharina |
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| description | The successful execution of complex PD projects still poses major challenges for companies. One approach companies can use to improve their performance is self-assessment tools to optimize their organization and processes. This paper investigates the requirements regarding self-assessment tools for PD organizations. It summarizes the current literature on PD-related self-assessment tools and derives tool requirements from an industry focus group (US aerospace and defense industry) as well as from interviews at a major American defense contractor. The resulting requirements are: 1. Focus on proven PD best practices; 2. Formalized implementation process; 3. Tool customization guidelines; and 4. Integration with other process improvement approaches. A gap analysis comparing these requirements to the previously identified tools is performed. The paper concludes with the outline of an example PD self-assessment tool that addresses these requirements. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/808772022-09-29T12:42:22Z Requirements for Product Development Self-Assessment Tools Knoblinger, Christoph Oehmen, Josef Rebentisch, Eric Seering, Warren Helten, Katharina Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center Knoblinger, Christoph Oehmen, Josef Rebentisch, Eric Seering, Warren The successful execution of complex PD projects still poses major challenges for companies. One approach companies can use to improve their performance is self-assessment tools to optimize their organization and processes. This paper investigates the requirements regarding self-assessment tools for PD organizations. It summarizes the current literature on PD-related self-assessment tools and derives tool requirements from an industry focus group (US aerospace and defense industry) as well as from interviews at a major American defense contractor. The resulting requirements are: 1. Focus on proven PD best practices; 2. Formalized implementation process; 3. Tool customization guidelines; and 4. Integration with other process improvement approaches. A gap analysis comparing these requirements to the previously identified tools is performed. The paper concludes with the outline of an example PD self-assessment tool that addresses these requirements. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lean Advancement Initiative Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM 2013-09-23T17:58:43Z 2013-09-23T17:58:43Z 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-904670-23-0 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80877 Knoblinger, Christoph; Oehmen, Josef; Rebentisch, Eric; Seering, Warren; Helten, Katharina. "Requirements for Product Development Self-Assessment Tools". Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 3: Design Organisation and Management, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-4851 en_US http://www.designsociety.org/publication/30502/requirements_for_product_development_self-assessment_tools Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Design Society Josef Oehmen |
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