Information Hiding in Product Development: The Design Churn Effect

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Title:	Information Hiding in Product Development: The Design Churn Effect
Keywords:	Design Process Modeling Design Churn Product Development Information Hiding Component and System Performance Generation Decomposition and Integration
Issue Date:	31-May-2013
Description:	Execution of a complex product development project is facilitated through its decomposition into an interrelated set of localized development tasks. When a local task is completed, its output is integrated through an iterative cycle of system-wide integration activities. Integration is often accompanied by inadvertent information hiding due to the asynchronous information exchanges. We show that information hiding leads to persistent recurrence of problems (termed as the design churn effect) such that progress oscillates between being on schedule and falling behind. The oscillatory nature of the PD process confounds progress measurement and makes it difficult to judge whether the project is on schedule or slipping. We develop a dynamic model of work transformation to derive conditions under which churn is observed as an unintended consequence of information hiding due to local and system task decomposition. We illustrate these conditions with a case example from an automotive development project and discuss strategies to mitigate design churn.
URI:	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/1721
Other Identifiers:	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/703
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