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Change propagation management by active batching
Oh, Gyesik; Hong, Yoo S.
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Year:
2017
Editor:
Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Seoul National University, Republic of (South Korea) Korea
Section:
Design Methods and Tools
Page(s):
613-622
ISBN:
978-1-904670-92-6
ISSN:
2220-4342
Abstract:
Incremental design causes changes to an existing product by modifying or adding sub-systems. In the perspective of development process management, changes prolong duration and raise cost with increasing design change jobs. The change management of a complex product is challenging since changes are stochastically propagated to multiple sub-systems. The present study proposes the novel change management method, active batching, to accommodate the complex and uncertain characteristics of change propagation. Active batching composes multiple probable change requests as a batch, based on the prediction of change propagation. It saves cost by eliminating multiple setups and redundant execution. It also avoids unnecessary waiting to compose a batch, which accelerates development process. Numerical study on software development project validates that active batching moves Pareto frontier line of project performance into the direction of less cost and short duration.
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