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ISSUE DRIVEN DESIGN: PLANNING AND MANAGING DESIGN ITERATIONS
Author(s) -
Alford Mack
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01745.x
Subject(s) - iterative design , sequence (biology) , process (computing) , computer science , iterative and incremental development , design process , engineering design process , software engineering , mathematical optimization , work in process , engineering , mathematics , operations management , programming language , scheduling (production processes) , biology , mechanical engineering , genetics
The general recognition that the design process is iterative in nature presents the manager with a problem: how does one manage an iterative process? On the one hand, the manager would like to see a sequence of well defined tasks with well defined outputs. On the other hand, the design process may more strongly resemble a “search” process, in which the territory is unknown. This paper addresses this problem by providing techniques for defining and characterizing a sequence of partial designs.