Measuring and Visualising Projects’ Collective Method Rationale
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Kai Wistrand; Fredrik Linander; Fredrik Karlsson
- Source
- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
9th IFIP Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM)
9th IFIP Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM), Nov 2016, Skövde, Sweden. pp.344-352, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-48393-1_26⟩
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ISBN: 9783319483924
PoEM
- Subject
- Process management
Computer science
business.industry
Management science
Modelling rationale
[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences
05 social sciences
Method rationale
02 engineering and technology
Collective method rationale
Work (electrical)
020204 information systems
Informatics
0502 economics and business
New product development
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Pilot test
[INFO]Computer Science [cs]
Action research
business
050203 business & management
Elaboration
- Language
- English
Part 3: Short Papers; International audience; Existing research provide frameworks for analysing the rationale behind engineering methods and how this rationale matches the rationale of individual project members. As methods are used in groups, this raises questions about how to study method rationale on an aggregated project level. We propose an elaboration of method rationale theory to enable this type of analysis. We introduce the concept of collective method rationale together with metrics to capture this aggregated rationale. The conceptual work is implemented in a computerized tool, which enables analyses of collective method rationale in product development projects. These are the results of an action research project and we present a pilot test of the computerized tool to demonstrate the concept.