BOUNDLESS COLLABORATION - DISTRIBUTED CONCURRENT DESIGN IN AN INTER-REGIONAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN EMERGENCY AUTHORITIES
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Nystr
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s): 1621-1630
Abstract
The aim of the article is to evaluate how Distributed Concurrent Design works during collaboration in a distributed system development project. We studied collaboration between emergency authorities in Sweden and Norway developing a demonstrator for emergency training. Evaluation criteria were people, processes, and tools. We have used a multi-method approach with the evaluation criterion as a lens. Findings has so far shown that distributed concurrent design works as a method in system development projects but much effort must be put on planning, management and training in available tools.
Keywords: collaboration, concurrent design, system development, evaluation