Factory Concepts and Practices in Software Development: An Historical Overview (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Michael A. Cusumano

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0260822191 ISBN 13: 9780260822192

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Factory Concepts and Practices in Software Development: An Historical Overview

Some researchers, however, have argued that structured engineering or factory processes of this sort have become possible only in industries when the rate of product innovations or changes decline to the point where firms can concentrate on process innovations related to cost reductions (abernathy and Utterback 1978, This requirement suggests that not all products or development processes are suitable for factory-oriented design and production systems, even though managers may have strong incentives to pursue more efficient modes of operations to compete effectively, especially in new industries with complex technologies.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0260822191
• ISBN 13: 9780260822192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80