Modularity and Black-Boxing

Abstract This article is part from the course 42433 – Advanced Engineering Project, Program and Portfolio Management E15 at DTU. This is an individual assignment and the reason why this topic has been selected is because of the personal interest of the author on it. To allow success in a company, project or program it is important to learn how to transform complex systems (meaning processes, concepts, architectures, etc.), in small boxes that can be easily handled. The structure of this article is defined by the following sections: - Modularity in different areas: Within the field of engineering modularity can be used in many different areas, this article will focus on three main areas of interest: product architecture, portfolio management and project management, and how they build each other. - Techniques: Here it will be addressed how to take to due modularity and two techniques will be described (black-boxing and MFD) - Limitations: This final section will discuss the limitations of this concept applied to the areas described in the article

Modularity in portfolio management

Module Drivers

Module Function Development

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Oehmen, J. et al 2015

Developing productc families based on architecture, Ulf Harlou