
Tobias Sebastian Schmidt- Dr.-Ing.
- Research Associate at University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Tobias Sebastian Schmidt
- Dr.-Ing.
- Research Associate at University of the Bundeswehr Munich
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More and more product development projects face Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) conditions that challenge the company’s competitveness. This is why an appropriate product development method is crucial to support the project team to successfully achieve an innovative and marketable product, that can yield the intended return on inv...
The more dynamic and unpredictable the development constraints, the more agile the development project should be to cope with and utilize inherent change. Especially in such contexts, aligning with the project's mission and vision, committing to next steps, and documenting the development path is challenging. To support the decision making process...
Agile development is no silver bullet-therefore, the contribution investigates how the perception of agility is changing over time as well as from different viewpoints. The results discussed in this contribution have been obtained in the course of two studies, which have been carried out in both 2017 and 2018. The focus of that studies' series is t...
More and more companies feel confronted with rising volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) in their development of physical products. To encounter such environments, they try to become more agile. However, many myths, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations exist in agile hardware development. This empirical study sheds light o...
In der Organisation und Steuerung der Produktentwicklung hat in den vergangenen Jahren das Konzept der agilen Produktentwicklung ein stetig wachsendes Interesse gefunden. Die Erfolge des Konzepts liegen in der Verkürzung der Entwicklungszeit bis zur Marktreife bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Treffsicherheit der Kundenbedürfnisse.
Die Herstellung von Ersatzteilen mittels additiver Fertigungsverfahren hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Herausforderungen bei der Konstruktion von Ersatzteilen bestehen insbesondere durch unklare Rahmenbedingungen wie fehlende Spezifikationen. Somit kann das enorme Potential gedruckter Ersatzteile derzeit oftmals nur i...
Even though there is a hype about agile methods in hardware development , their application has proven less effective compared to agile software development. That is why this study analysed the influence of their principles on the constraints of physicality, to understand the effect on a more detailed level. Data was obtained from interviews with e...
Although many difficulties still exist, metal additive manufacturing is on the rise-also in the military. The German Armed Forces are currently working on a process to re-engineer machine parts worn during deployment, generate a printable file and send it back to the area of operation where the troop prints the spare part locally. As the developmen...
Especially when the development context is highly dynamic, it is worth pursuing multiple design concepts and ideas to have alternative options available when the unforeseen occurs. With this motivation in mind, the investigation aims at deriving an agile practice to guide an agile development team in set-based design during everyday business. The r...
More and more companies feel confronted with rising volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) in their development of physical products. To encounter such environments, they try to become more agile. However, many myths, misunderstandings and misinterpretations exist in agile hardware development. This empirical study brings light in...
Not only software development, but also many companies developing physical products (not purely software) face high uncertainties and dynamics which raises the need for agile practices well-proven in software development. However, so-called constraints of physicality (e.g. duration to build potentially shippable increments) make it very difficult t...
When product development involves many uncertainties and changes are highly likely, agile approaches are valuable. They integrate customers into the development process frequently and explore what satisfies them best. For that, the development team builds working prototypes, demonstrates them and receives feedback being incorporated into the next i...
Since some branches of product development face
uncertainty and dynamics similarly to software development, agile
approaches as proven to be purposive in software development
disseminate for that reason to physical product development (not
purely software), too. As existing maturity assessment models
insufficiently consider the inherent constraints...
Agile development as an alternative to traditional plan-driven approaches gains rising popularity in both software and non-software industries due to its advantages in dynamic and uncertain environments. Although its implementation challenges are widely explored, interdependencies between them are mostly neglected in recent papers. Practice and aca...
Product development becomes increasingly uncertain and dynamic. Under these conditions, traditional approaches such as VDI 2221 and VDI 2206 reach their limits as they are too stiff to handle large numbers of changes efficiently. Agile methods, however, are flexible and embrace changes. In software development, they have been proven very beneficial...
Globalization and its inherent need to be highly connected lead to increasing application of information technology in business practice. Business Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning, Application Development, Cloud Computing and Customer Relationship Management have currently been rated to be the most important trends in this context. By usi...
The lead user method symbolises a technique of integrating advanced users into the New Product Development (NPD) to cope with firm's increasing necessity of successfully innovating. Implementing this method, companies often face challenges typically linked to barriers in project management. We analyse these drawbacks conducting an exploratory study...
In an increasingly complex world the ability to master changes becomes more and more relevant. Agility, leanness, flexibility, reconfigurability and changeability are frequently highlighted in this context, but usually not in a distinct way. Instead they are often used as synonyms - partially because they are hyped and “in” - which is in fact wrong...