In a world driven by technological advancements and ever-changing consumer preferences, large-scale custom-driven development projects have emerged as the gateway to creating complex products and systems tailored to individual customer needs. Steering these projects to successful completion presents significant challenges, with lead time deviations being a key concern. This study investigates an industrial defense corporation's current product development process to examine systematic factors that negatively impact lead time. Therefore, semi-structured interviews wereconducted with eight interview persons with the primarily aim to identify and classify these systematic factors into three organizationalperspectives providing a comprehensive understanding of their implications. These perspectives revealed how systematic factors shaped initial project planning expectations and potential consequences, based on the organization's priorities. Additionally, the study emphasizes the need for a flexible risk-reducing reactive project model to mitigate lead time deviations stemming from the company's existing project model. Lastly, the study reveals that large-scale custom-driven development projects require careful consideration of trade-offs related to multi-project management and resource allocation. Companies must make decisions regarding whether to prioritize efficent project execution or winning business deals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-512924 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Wallden, William |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | SAMINT-MILI ; 23039 |
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