• It is imperative for product development (PD) organizations to capture, manage, and use information about how complex systems of PD work lead to desired outcomes

  • “Mapping the genome” of PD work, “project DNA”

  • “Process capital,” “process assets,” etc.

• Rich, process models provide a mechanism for doing so, with a process architecture framework (PAF).

• Integrative process modeling (IPM) is a general approach to building PD process models that support a wide variety of purposes, such as:

  • Providing evidence for external certifications

  • Planning projects and programs

  • Especially, serving as a salient repository for crucial organizational information

• A centralized team of modeling experts leads the overall IPM endeavor.

• Distributed agents define various subprocesses and activities, thereby capturing PD information from across very large organizations.

Key Publications:  P11, P38