THE INFLUENCE OF PRODUCT COMPLEXITY ON TEAM PERFORMANCE WITHIN NPD
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Fain, N.; Žavbi, R.; Vukašinović, N.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN EDUCATION
Page(s): 2069-2080
Abstract
This paper explores the influence of product complexity on team performance. A longitudinal case study of a Masters course European Global Product Realisation, where 4 universities collaborate on product development projects is used to study the phenomenon. 4 different projects are explored, where in 2 of them teams worked on the full product development process for a particular product and 2 projects where several teams worked on a single product, thus the focus was on developing specific modules of the same product, due to its complexity.
Keywords: product complexity, virtual teams, product development performance