Designing system development projects for organizational integration

✍ Scribed by Tyson R. Browning

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 329 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1098-1241
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6858(1999)2:4<217::aid-sys4>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

In complex system development projects, integrated product teams (IPTs) may be used to develop various system components. Many have struggled to determine the characteristics of highly effective IPTs and the circumstances in which particular perspectives should be incorporated within an IPT. However, much less research has addressed the nature and management of the relationships between IPTsthe integration of IPTs within a project. While many have lamented that coordination problems have played a large part in diminishing the performance of their projects, a systematic approach for considering these issues a priori, during the organization design activity, is lacking. This paper describes a framework for thinking about organizational integration within a project and develops a systematic approach for designing organizations, design for integration (DFI), that explicitly considers integration needs.