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Concept for Organizational Structures of Agile Development Networks

Konzept für Organisationsstrukturen agiler Entwicklungsnetzwerke

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Production at the leading edge of technology

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Today’s development projects take place in an environment characterized by with fast-paced changes of market conditions. This development leads to new challenges for the manufacturing industry, especially in high-wage countries. One response to these challenges is the adaptation of agile practices from the software industry to R&D departments of manufacturing companies. The main objectives are improved adaptability to changing requirements and a reduced time-to-market. At the same time, rising complexity of technical systems leads to a growing variety of stakeholders and competences involved in a development project. The required capabilities are increasingly provided in so-called product development networks. This paper presents a methodology to increase the innovation productivity of agile development networks by phase-oriented configuration of relevant elements of the underlying organizational structure of the network. The objective is to leverage the advantages of the mentioned approaches and to create a framework for designing agile development networks.

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Heutige Entwicklungsprojekte finden in einem Umfeld statt, welches von rasanten Veränderungen der Marktbedingungen geprägt ist. Diese Entwicklung führt zu neuen Herausforderungen für die produzierende Industrie. Als Reaktion werden in den F&E-Abteilungen produzierender Unternehmen zunehmend agile Vorgehensweisen aus der Softwareindustrie adaptiert. Hauptziele sind eine verbesserte Anpassungsfähigkeit an sich ändernde Anforderungen und eine kürzere Time-to-Market. Gleichzeitig führt die zunehmende Komplexität technischer Systeme zu einer wachsenden Vielfalt an benötigten Kompetenzen und Beteiligten, die in einem Entwicklungsprojekt involviert sind. Die erforderlichen Fähigkeiten werden zunehmend in sogenannten Entwicklungsnetzwerken bereitgestellt. Diese Veröffentlichung stellt eine Methodik zur Steigerung der Innovationsproduktivität agiler Entwicklungsnetzwerke durch phasenorientierte Konfiguration der Organisationsstruktur des Netzwerkes vor. Ziel ist es, einen Rahmen zur Gestaltung agiler Entwicklungsnetzwerke darzustellen.

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Kuhn, M., Dölle, C., Riesener, M., Schuh, G. (2019). Concept for Organizational Structures of Agile Development Networks. In: Wulfsberg, J.P., Hintze, W., Behrens, BA. (eds) Production at the leading edge of technology. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60417-5_65

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