An integrated product development framework

Abstract

Integrated product development (IPD) is a systematic approach to product (or service) development that achieves a timely collaboration of necessary disciplines throughout the product life cycle to better satisfy customer needs. This paper provides an architecture and content description for IPD. The final product due in the first quarter of 1998 describes a formal model based on industry input for IPD and the roles of teams within it. The intent of the paper is to present the current architecture and collect feedback on practitioner-targeted, short, informational presentations and what else practitioners who help develop and implement processes need/want to know to want to try out the IPD model.