Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Summer 2012

Instructor

Tugrul Daim

Course Title

R & D Management

Course Number

EMG 536/636

Subjects

Computer software -- Development -- Case studies, Computer software -- Development -- Management, Computer software -- Development -- Decision making, Information technology -- Management

Abstract

Trial and error are inevitable in the process of software development; the redesign is wasteful when unfocused communication occurs within the development process. To speed up this development process, we optimized the information flow and redesigned the development organization into chunks. First, we investigated the information flow between tasks and coupled tasks into phases utilizing the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) so that the information exchange among chunks of tasks is as few as possible. In this way, the redundant iterations of tasks are eliminated. Meanwhile, we also grouped the engineers into groups according to the tasks, in this; we eliminated wasteful communications between the groups of engineers. We depict the social network defined by the information flow within the software development sector and compared the new arrangement to the old arrangement in a visible way. This new arrangement will facilitate the communications between engineers and speed up the process of software development.

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21314

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