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Building an Agent-Based Model for Study of Product Development Team’s Adaptability

Teams play a significant role in the process of product development, regardless of whether the product developed is a machine, software or service. As such, a number of studies have been conducted to determine factors influencing team effectiveness and performance. Due to flexibility, effectiveness and applicability of computational models, modelling and simulation approach has been used to aid research on teams, and simulations have been successfully utilised for studies on different aspects of teamwork. However, the full potential of computational experiments has yet to be achieved, as studies focusing on emergent properties of product development teams are seldom. One of team properties essential for product development’s success is team adaptability, as teams have to constantly adjust to market changes, alterations in team structure, technology advancements, changes in product requirements, or upcoming deadlines. Thus, the development of a simulation framework which would enable studies of product development team’s adaptation is of particular interest. This work presents the research aimed at the development of such framework.

Agent-based simulation and modelling ; teamwork ; product development ; team adaptability

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