Complexity evaluation of development projects

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Günther Schuh
• Subject Area: Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning
• Term: from 2015 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268925899

The goal of this research proposal is to develop a model for the complexity evaluation of development projects, which can be used to identify the challenges of a project constellation. The model ensures the identification of the features that determine the complexity of the proposed development project before the beginning of a development project. Based on these features the influencing factors, which can be adapted to these prevailing conditions are identified in order to achieve a balance between the given project complexity and the system complexity to fulfill Ashby's 'Law of requisite variety'. Therefore a new approach has to be developed, which uses existing methods for the evaluation of complexity and approaches for the description of influencing factors of the development projects.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants