Bridging the gap between technical and social dependencies with Ariadne
eclipse '05 Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange
Cost estimation for global software development
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Economics driven software engineering research
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Detecting Coordination Problems in Collaborative Software Development Environments
Information Systems Management
Latent social structure in open source projects
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Communication networks in geographically distributed software development
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Tesseract: Interactive visual exploration of socio-technical relationships in software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
SDG '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Development Governance
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Product design knowledge management based on design structure matrix
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Hierarchical Structure and Search in Complex Organizations
Management Science
Complementarities Between Organizational IT Architecture and Governance Structure
Information Systems Research
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Multitask Agency, Modular Architecture, and Task Disaggregation in SaaS
Journal of Management Information Systems
A simulation-based risk network model for decision support in project risk management
Decision Support Systems
Digital capability assessment for egovernment: a multi-dimensional approach
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
Journal of Management Information Systems
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proximity: a measure to quantify the need for developers' coordination
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The impact of communication structure on new product development outcomes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making the leap to a software platform strategy: Issues and challenges
Information and Software Technology
Timely detection of coordination requirements to support collaboration among software developers
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Journal of Management Information Systems
Linking Cyclicality and Product Quality
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
The communication patterns of technical leaders: impact on product development team performance
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Project dynamics and emergent complexity
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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Product architecture knowledge is typically embedded in the communication patterns of established development organizations. While this enables the development of products using the existing architecture, it hinders the organization's ability to implement novel architectures, especially for complex products. Structured methods addressing this issue are lacking, as previous research has studied complex product development from two separate perspectives: product architecture and organizational structure. Our research integrates these viewpoints with a structured approach to study how design interfaces in the product architecture map onto communication patterns within the development organization. We investigate how organizational and system boundaries, design interface strength, indirect interactions, and system modularity impact the alignment of design interfaces and team interactions. We hypothesize and test how these factors explain the existence of the following cases: (1) known design interfaces not addressed by team interactions, and (2) observed team interactions not predicted by design interfaces. Our results offer important insights to managers dealing with interdependences across organizational and functional boundaries. In particular, we show how boundary effects moderate the impact of design interface strength and indirect team interactions, and are contingent on system modularity. The research uses data collected from a large commercial aircraft engine development process.