Transmission of software-related agile mechanisms of action towards product development processes for technical products
Günther Schuh, Michael Riesener, Jan Kantelberg, Niklas Steireif · 2017
Producing companies are forced to a continuous development of new product innovations in shorter development cycles. The integration of mechatronic components with simultaneous high demands on quality and costs results in a significant increase of complexity. Therefore, the necessity to handle this rising product complexity requires a sustainable conceptual realignment of the current product development process. An approach to face this challenge is provided by the application of methods used for agile software development. These methods have helped the software industry for years to a measureable optimization of the success factors time, quality and costs. Referring to these successes, a method is developed which allows a systematic transmission of agile mechanisms of action towards development processes of technical products. In a first step, applied agile practices are identified and clustered to common so-called agile mechanisms of action. The second step considers their influence on the adjustment of deterministic process elements.