Abstract

Complexity in new product development projects is a challenge for many companies in manufacturing industry today. Increased product variety and individualization, enhanced functionality and differentiated markets result in growing complexity in product development. As the number of conditions and interdependencies that have to be considered rises, the need for methodological support to manage complexity in new product development projects increases at the same time. There is a large number of existing approaches that provide frameworks for complexity drivers in projects and identify specific drivers as well as approaches to measure complexity in certain dimensions. This paper aims at integrating a holistic set of complexity drivers and a method to evaluate complexity based on these drivers in a conceptual framework. The complexity drivers are evaluated individually and analyzed in a portfolio. The presented framework enables project managers to identify critical sources of complexity in a new product development project and to analyze measures to adjust complexity taking into account the interdependencies between the complexity drivers.

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