PROCESS ANALYSIS USING STRUCTURAL METRICS: A COMPREHENSIVE CASE STUDY
DS 60: Proceedings of DESIGN 2010, the 11th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2010
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Kreimeyer, M.; Bradford, N.; Lindemann, U.
Section: DESIGN PROCESSES
Page(s): 295-306
Abstract
There are numerous approaches to analyze and improve processes systematically. This paper focuses especially on the application of structural complexity metrics that assess, at a high level, how the different entities of a process interact and where, through the identification of structural outliers, there might point to possible weak spots. The paper is based on a previously published case study and compares a recent, more comprehensive set of complexity metrics to an existing analysis using a case study taken from automotive design.
Keywords: structural complexity, process, analysis, metric