Graph-Based Collaboration Analysis of an Agile Medical Engineering Project with Structural Metrics

Sebastian Schweigert-Recksiek; Agzam Idrissov; Tilak Bharadwaj; Anja Maier; Udo Lindemann

doi:10.35199/dsm2020.20

Graph-Based Collaboration Analysis of an Agile Medical Engineering Project with Structural Metrics

Sebastian Schweigert-Recksiek, Agzam Idrissov, Tilak Bharadwaj, Anja Maier, Udo Lindemann

Department of Technology, Management and Economics

Technical University of Munich

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Agile development approaches are gaining popularity in hardware product development and medical engineering. Consequently, techniques of structural complexity management can be applied on agile projects. This paper analyses the collaboration data of a twelve-month project to design a 3D-printed microtiter plate. Exchanged e-mails, created artifacts, and conducted tasks were analyzed to identify typical barriers of inter-disciplinary collaboration. Appropriate improvement measures to overcome these barriers were suggested and evaluated in a four-hour workshop with members of the core team of the project. As a result, out of the collaboration network with 851 nodes and 9001 edges, six main barriers were identified. The most hindering barriers according to the experts' opinion were matched with appropriate improvement measures. After an assessment of the cost/benefit ratio, two measures were chosen for implementation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference
Publisher	Design Society
Publication date	2020
Pages	197-206
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-912254-12-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35199/dsm2020.20
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference - Virtual Conference, United States Duration: 13 Oct 2020 → 15 Oct 2020

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Conference	22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference
Location	Virtual Conference
Country/Territory	United States
Period	13/10/2020 → 15/10/2020

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Schweigert-Recksiek, S, Idrissov, A, Bharadwaj, T, Maier, A & Lindemann, U 2020, Graph-Based Collaboration Analysis of an Agile Medical Engineering Project with Structural Metrics. in Proceedings of the 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference. Design Society, pp. 197-206, 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, Massachusetts, United States, 13/10/2020. https://doi.org/10.35199/dsm2020.20

Graph-Based Collaboration Analysis of an Agile Medical Engineering Project with Structural Metrics. / Schweigert-Recksiek, Sebastian; Idrissov, Agzam; Bharadwaj, Tilak et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference. Design Society, 2020. p. 197-206.

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