Abstract
Successful development projects share common characteristics and attributes documented in project management curriculums and professional societies. This report gives tribute to those common elements as well as advancements in Systems Engineering to provide guidelines for system life cycle processes and activities.
Closely guarded by many corporations is the actual product development “process” which includes the steps, critical decisions, and roadmaps that enable a development team to efficiently evolve products from conceptual design to delivery and support. This paper addresses the question “can a single tailorable product development architecture be formulated and selectively optimized to address specific needs of a commercial or military application?” It will also guide the reader through a case study of creating a product development architecture and the benefits derived from the journey.
This approach will take a different perspective than the management, planning, and control viewpoints of product development and engage the topic with an engineering execution representation.
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Neugebauer, G.L. (2014). A Product Development Architecture with an Engineering Execution Representation of the Development Process. In: Aiguier, M., Boulanger, F., Krob, D., Marchal, C. (eds) Complex Systems Design & Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02812-5_13
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