managing virtual product development team: a review

Managing Virtual Product Development team: A Review

Although there are many potential benefits associated with the use of virtual product development teams, exploiting these benefits requires an appropriate management. Managing virtual product development team is a critical issue as many of these teams fail to accomplish their goals. Review of previous literature shows that body of knowledge in managing virtual product development teams is fragm...

Managing Automotive Product Development

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

A Framework for Managing Software Product Development

Software products have become an integral foundation of most businesses today. Most companies rely heavily on their database products, data mining , and other analysis tools to perform their day to day operations. Furthermore, the dynamic nature of businesses creates new requirements in terms of functionality, reliability, and performance (Lehman 1996). The result is that software development o...

Managing a Dispersed Product Development Process

Industrial Challenges in Managing Product Development Knowledge 1 Industrial Challenges in Managing Product Development Knowledge

To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of identifying such challenges in managing product development knowledge from the perspective of designers and engineers. This research is part of the LeanPPD, a project funded by the EU-PF7 (www.leanppd.eu), to address the n...

Product Development with Virtual Prototypes

F or most research-funding organizations, computational engineering is a study area in academic engineering departments, and is often somewhat indistinguishable from highly applied physics, chemistry, and biology research. I'm going to address a different kind of computational engineering that is focused on the development, manufacture, and deployment of innovative, complex technical products s...