Development and Evaluation of a Workshop Concept to Support Tailoring of Complex Product Development Processes

Abstract

Product development faces a conflict of increasing complexity in products and processes as well as a need for increased flexibility and agility. While structured reference processes create a baseline, their adaptation of tailoring for particular projects is necessary. While approaches for automated tailoring have been developed in the area of software engineering, these focus on automation and collaborative, social aspects of tailoring are thus far underrepresented. To address this issue, we present a workshop-based approach, which uses input generated by structural analysis of modeled tailoring decisions. The approach has been evaluated in two industrial case studies.