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Reporting on the Development of a Web-Based Prototype Dashboard for Construction Design Managers, Achieved through Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM)

Construction Design Management (DM) involves the coordination of design processes and activities to ensure quality project design, yet it involves many challenges. This study reports on a collaborative Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with a Case Study Organization (CSO) that tackled several issues faced by construction design managers. Employing a design science research methodology (DSRM), qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with purposefully identified design managers uncovered real-world concerns around design co-ordination and performance monitoring. To address these concerns, a web-based design management prototype dashboard was developed using typical project data to aid in the management of design coordination, task prioritization, and reporting functionalities. The web-based Design Management prototype dashboard enhances design management productivity in construction firms by monitoring design production, assessing designer performance trends, and focusing on Technical Queries (TQs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). Digitalizing selected design management processes improves efficiency and productivity. The visual reporting of the dashboard enables design production monitoring at project and portfolio levels, assesses trends in designer performance, and maintains focus on TQs and RFIs. Demonstrating how web-based Design Management dashboards can enhance productivity, this study emphasizes practical solutions derived from employing a design science research methodology. The development and application of the web-based dashboard contribute to the growing evidence that employing design science research methodology in construction can yield tangible solutions to address real-world construction concerns.

Dynamical Systems Group | Complex Systems, Engineered

Systems engineering firm that operationalizes emerging technology for high-reliability organizations. Scientific Computing, MBSE, Systems Integration.

Software engineering under the spotlight

Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away, but the coordination and efficiency of each section is fairly low. Some parts of the factory get jammed up and don’t do anything for days. Other parts are manically producing broken components which are thrown away unused. However, the factory manager - i.e. the tech company CEO - has one tool to combat this problem. That tool is the spotlight.

Worktree

Worktree is a Canadian Git, DevOps, and Cloud platform. Collaborate on code, build with GitHub-compatible Actions, and deploy to Worktree Cloud.

Your connected workspace for wiki, docs & projects | Notion

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.

Design system doc spec 0.15.2

A machine-readable format for design system documentation. DSDS structures components, tokens, themes, foundations, patterns, and guides as a single source of truth for humans, parsers, and agents.

The VSM Test & Guide | SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation

Links are to the VSM basic test and the VSM advanced test.Aim of the guide: This VSM guide serves as a quick and practical resource for understanding and applying the Viable System Model in organizational analysis and design. It should help to spread the powerful knowledge of management cybernetics.

An FPM critique: The Gantt Chart and the hidden history behind your project timeline

It's one of the first tools most project managers learn about. Colourful bars stretching across a timeline, tasks lined up neatly, progress tracked against a plan. The Gantt chart feels logical, even neutral. Just a visual way to organise work. But like the RACI matrix, when we look more closely at where this tool comes from and what values it was built on, the picture becomes considerably more complicated.

ESF+ Study on Workers’ Buyout

This report provides a WBO overview within a European context, defines WBO and the most common models, as well as current trends and insights within the WBO context. The assessment is further enriched with insights collected from the countries analysed, incl. the mapping of the WBO frameworks in France, Spain, Italy and Slovenia and the in-debt case studies.

Issues · WebAssembly/component-model

Repository for design and specification of the Component Model - Issues · WebAssembly/component-model

ME 491: Functional Decomposition

Functional decomposition is a technique for dividing a larger task into smaller tasks. During decomposition, the team focuses on the inputs and outputs of each task and uses generic descriptions of the process achieved by the task. The decomposition process is usually applied recursively until the design team can readily envision ways of achieving each of the sub-tasks. Functional decomposition is also called functional analysis, top-down design, or logical decomposition.

TeamTopologies/Team-Topologies-Community-Materials

A list of materials relating to Team Topologies (articles, tools, canvases, etc.) generated by the community.

How to Make Sense of Any Mess

Information Architecture for Everybody. Based on a book by Information Architect, Abby Covert.

A Taxonomy for Open Source Software

I’m working on a structured taxonomy for classifying open source projects across multiple dimensions: domain, role, technology, audience, layer, and function.

The Fractal Organisation Manual: How to diagnose & design organisations using the Viable System Model | SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation

RRP: £12.99; Paperback: ‎ 192 pp; Publisher: ‎ SCiO; ISBN 979-8250847018