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Analysing Paradigms for Managing Product Development: Conventional, Agile and Hybrid Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

L. Rößler  and
K. Gericke
L. Rößler*
Affiliation:
University of Rostock, Germany
K. Gericke
Affiliation:
University of Rostock, Germany
*
lisa.roessler@uni-rostock.de

Abstract

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As the complexity of products and their development processes increases, a trend emerged where companies try to manage the complexity through implementing agile practices on all or on some levels of the development process. It is not yet clear if an agile approach is the solution or under which circumstances it can be most effective in the development of physical products. This paper aims to compile the information from existing empirical and meta-studies to give an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of conventional, agile and hybrid paradigms.

Keywords

project managementconventional product developmentagile developmentagile managementhybrid product development

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 263 - 272
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