Graph-based collaboration analysis of an agile medical engineering project with structural metrics

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

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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
Editors	Harold (Mike) Stowe, Tyson R. Browning, Steven D. Eppinger, Jakob Trauer
Place of Publication	Glasgow
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35199/dsm2020.20
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2020
Event	22nd International Dependency and Structure Modelling Conference - Online, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Duration: 13 Oct 2020 → 15 Oct 2020 https://www.designsociety.org/1016/22nd+International+Dependency+and+Structure+Modelling+Conference+%28DSM+2020%29

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Conference	22nd International Dependency and Structure Modelling Conference
Abbreviated title	DSM 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Period	13/10/20 → 15/10/20
Internet address	https://www.designsociety.org/1016/22nd+International+Dependency+and+Structure+Modelling+Conference+%28DSM+2020%29

Keywords

modelling of socio-technical systems
complex development processes
graph analysis
MDM
DMM

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Schweigert-Recksiek, S., Idrissov, A., Bharadwaj, T., Maier, A. M., & Lindemann, U. (2020). Graph-based collaboration analysis of an agile medical engineering project with structural metrics. In H. Stowe, T. R. Browning, S. D. Eppinger, & J. Trauer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference https://doi.org/10.35199/dsm2020.20

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Schweigert-Recksiek, S, Idrissov, A, Bharadwaj, T, Maier, AM & Lindemann, U 2020, Graph-based collaboration analysis of an agile medical engineering project with structural metrics. in H Stowe, TR Browning, SD Eppinger & J Trauer (eds), Proceedings of the 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference. Glasgow, 22nd International Dependency and Structure Modelling Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 13/10/20. 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. ed. / Harold (Mike) Stowe; Tyson R. Browning; Steven D. Eppinger; Jakob Trauer. Glasgow, 2020.

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