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GITHUB FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT-HOW COULD THAT LOOK LIKE?

Georg Hackenberg, Christian Zehetner and Dominik Frühwirth

Proceedings of the Design Society 3, pp. 2055-2064, July 2023

Abstract

Product development is facing new challenges due to increasingly complex and individualized products in small batch sizes and short time to markets at high quality standards. Integrated product data management along with systematic requirements engineering and early stakeholder involvement are known to be key enablers for the success of future product development. In software development, established platforms such as GitHub exist, which have been shown to improve stakeholder communication, requirements elicitation, and software design decisions. In product development, similar platforms exist with impressive functionality, but which have some drawbacks such as closed source licenses, vendor-specific data formats, and expert-level user interfaces. To overcome the current situation, we study how the ideas of GitHub can be translated to an open source solution for product development and which …

BibTeX Citation

@INPROCEEDINGS{hackenberg2023github,
  author={Georg Hackenberg and Christian Zehetner and Dominik Frühwirth},
  title={GITHUB FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT-HOW COULD THAT LOOK LIKE?},
  year={2023},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Design Society},
  volume={3},
  pages={2055-2064},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press}
}

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