Modularity and Black-Boxing

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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

Modularity and Black-Boxing

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-Every product architecture is based in modularity. Modularity is the key for managing complexity and the more complexity there is in a product the more useful will be the use of modules or black-boxes.
+'''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 refers to how components relate. It can be extrapolated to products or projects since it is a crucial strategy that enable a simplification and customization of the architecture. It consist on coupling and decoupling, connect and disconnect the different parts and features of a product.
-This modularization allows the creation of product families in a portfolio by simplifying processes and saving materials, which also means optimization in means of money, time to release the product and customization. To decide the future architecture of a product it can be helpful to think on the module drives described by Erixon 1998. The modular function development (MFD) is a good approach for the identification of those modules having the starting point in the customer requirements and the module drivers.
-Regarding modularity of projects it allows the internal design strategy by shorting the time to learn and making the process more efficient that could be basis for a competitive advantage.