Performance of Coupled Product Development Activities with a Deadline
提出一个绩效生成模型，研究在固定资源和截止日期约束下，如何选择顺序、并行或重叠策略来管理耦合设计活动，并分析并行策略的适用条件。
This paper explores the performance of coupled development activities by proposing a performance generation model (PGM). The goal of the PGM is to develop insights about optimal strategies (i.e., sequential, concurrent, or overlapped) to manage coupled design activities that share a fixed amount of engineering resources subject to performance and deadline constraints. Model analysis characterizes the solution space for the coupled development problem. The solution space is used to explore the generation of product performance and the associated dynamic forces affecting concurrent development practices. We use these forces to explain conditions under which concurrency is a desirable strategy.