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Identifying Change and Propagations in Product Development Project

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The aim of this paper is to provide some exploratory results concerning change modelling and propagation in Product Development (PD) project as a theoretical contribution to the change management theory. In order to identify changes, we propose a conceptual model of change occurring and change propagation relying on objects, which are the elements composing the PD project as a system, and then we observe the objects to compare their initial constraints with the actual performance to perceive the potential changes. With the result, changes in a PD project can be perceived and identified in underlying way to improve the further change management work in terms of various considerations of project evolvement.

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This work was jointly supported by the International Joint Research Project issued by Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department (No. 20150414055GH).

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    Xin Zhang, Zhanfang Chen, Jinli Li & Xin Feng

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Zhang, X., Chen, Z., Li, J. et al. Identifying Change and Propagations in Product Development Project. Wireless Pers Commun 103, 69–81 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-5426-x

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