Integrated Product Development Team

Various methods and models are available to support the organization of multidisciplinary teams relative to NPD. Integrated Product Development Teams (IPDT) and Design-Build Teams (DBT) are examples of team organization modes, which incorporate experts from multiple lifecycle phases to represent disciplinary requirements, constraints and solutions. 

Assemble the Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT). The IPDT will assist in interdisciplinary development efforts and break down organizational stovepipes. ... 

Ten Techniques for High Performance in Integrated Product Development Teams (IPDTs)... 

One feature of this process is the coordination of work tasks within the distributed teams. It will become increasingly important to bring together the different experts. Effective and efficient project management is the basis for the way a team functions. The early integration of different experts serves as a means to develop innovative products. This is also an important factor concerning costs because the main ptut of the end costs are determined in the early phases of product development. To faciUtate the integration of different experts tmd enhance the efficiency of the iterative phases, prototypes arc used as cost-efficient visual models. 

Many companies, particularly in aerospace, use integrated product teams that include, among others, design engineers, safety engineers, human factors experts, potential users of the system (operators), and maintainers. But the development process used may not necessarily take maximum advantage of this potential for collaboration. The process outlined in part III tries to do that. 

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