Support of Inter-organizational Cooperation within Complex Development Processes

Often, the development of a technical product is the result of a cooperation between different independent organizations. Reasons are that knowledge from different disciplines is required or that development risks should be reduced. Managing a development process in a single organization is already difficult because of the inherent dynamics. The tasks which have to be executed depend on the results of previously executed tasks. Phases of process execution and process planning overlap. Moreover, erroneous results of a task may be discovered later, resulting in a feedback which causes the reexecution of the task.