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Textbook - Product Design and Development, Fifth Edition, Author - Karl T. Ulrich by Steven D. Eppinger. ISBN 978-0-07-340477-6.

Chapter 2 - Development Processes and Organizations

Exercises -

1. Diagram a process for planning and cooking a family dinner. Does your process resemble the generic product development process? Is cooking dinner analogous to a market-pull, technology-push, platform, process-intensive, customization, high-risk, quick-build, or complex system process?

2. Define a process for finding a job. For what types of endeavor does a well-defined process enhance performance?

3. What type of development process would you expect to find in an established company successful at developing residential air-conditioning units? How about for a small company that is trying to break into the market for racing wheelchairs?

4. Sketch the organization (in some appropriate graphical representation) of a consulting firm that develops new products for clients on a project-by-project basis. Assume that the individuals in the firm represent all of the different functions required to develop a new product. Would this organization most likely be aligned with functions, be aligned by projects, or be a hybrid?

Thought Questions -

1. What role does basic technological research play in the product development process? How would you modify Exhibit 2-3 to better represent the research and technology development activities in product development?

2. Is there an analogy between a university and a product development organization? Is a university a functional or project organization?

3. What is the product development organization for students engaged in projects as part of a product development class?

4. Is it possible for some members of a product development organization to be organized functionally, while others are organized by project? If so, which members of the team would be the most likely candidates for the functional organization?

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