On identifying and estimating the cycle time of product development process

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-349

  Jun, Hong Bae ^a   Ahn, Hyun Soo ^b   Suh, Hyo Won ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cycle time estimation; Iteration; Overlapping; Process pattern; Product development (PD) process

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

CYCLE TIME ESTIMATION; OVERLAPPING; PROCESS PATTERN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 23344444693     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2005.850740     Document Type: Article

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