Collaborative design: Managing task interdependencies and multiple perspectives

Collaborative design : managing task interdependencies and multiple perspectives

This paper focuses on two characteristics of collaborative design with respect to cooperative work: the importance of work interdependencies linked to the nature of design problems; and the fundamental function of design cooperative work arrangement which is the confrontation and combination of perspectives. These two intrinsic characteristics of the design work stress specific cooperative proc...

A Process Design Approach to Managing Interdependencies in Complex Organizations

In this paper we investigate some key challenges in designing organizati ons. We focus on requirements for the effective design of the processes that an organization carries out, with an emphasis on defining and managing interdependencies among organizational subunits engaged in processes within complex organizations. We draw on the concept of process architectures, a fundamental way of describ...

Task Interdependencies in Design-to-time Real-time Scheduling

Design-to-time is an approach to real-time scheduling in situations where multiple methods exist for many tasks that the system needs to solve. Often these methods will have relationships with one other, such as the execution of one method enabling the execution of another, or the use of a rough approximation by one method affecting the performance of a method that uses its result. Most previou...

Managing interdependencies in globally-distributed software development

ETH World - New Perspectives for Collaborative Design

Information Technology, globalization and new budgetary processes have growing impact on universities. Planning and design are no longer restricted to the invention and construction of physical artifacts and architecture. The number of non-physical or virtual aspects of buildings is growing steadily. The emergence of rapidly changing and spatially distributed research teams requires new types o...