Interorganizational Management of Development Processes

The AHEAD system supports the management of development processes for complex end products in engineering disciplines. AHEAD is based on nearly ten years of ongoing research on development processes in different engineering disciplines and the underlying concepts have been applied to the above application domains. Today, development processes tend to be distributed across organization boundaries. As the organizations which execute a shared process, usually have different goals and interests, a balance between all interests has to be achieved in a supporting concept. This paper illustrates by a short sample scenario, how the AHEAD system supports distributed development processes thereby taking the interests of all cooperation partners into account.