In this paper we report on a case study of a participatory design process we call Community Driven Development (CDD). Together with a German software company we developed a socio-technical environment to motivate users of an existing online user community to participate in the further development of a product. For the CDD approach developers and users worked together to create a functional desc...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to support the customization ability for industrial house building companies striving offer individualized products but with a strategy which includes production facility. This accomplished by analyzing as-is state in terms existing engineering assets and proposing to-be using design platform product lifecycle management (PLM) support. Design/methodology/...