Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium

4:15PM, Wednesday, May 12, 1999
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

The Lucos project
Improving the controllability of product development in the high-tech industry

Casper Lassenius
Helsinki University of Technology
About the talk:
Controlling product development in high-tech companies is notoriously hard. Many companies have adopted stage-gate like processes, and implemented metrics programs, process improvement efforts etc. Yet, if we look at the problems companies today face in controlling their product development efforts, the same problems discussed in literature for several years still prevail. Misaligned or poorly implemented process definition and improvement efforts have even added new ones, such as excessive bureacracy and high costs of control.

The talk will present an ongoing, three-year research project that TAI Research Centre conducts together with five high-tech companies. The project looks into the problem of controlling product development in the high-tech industry, and what can be done to improve the situation. Preliminary findings and ideas will be presented.

About the speaker:

Casper Lassenius currently works as a project manager at the TAI Research Centre at Helsinki University of Technology. His research interests includes management of new product development, process modeling and enactment support, R&D metrics, and software engineering.

He also loves good discussions on a variety of topics, preferrably combined with good food and wine, and is always open for dinner invitations :-)

Contact information:

Casper Lassenius
Helsinki University of Technology
TAI Research Center
P.O. Box 9555 / FIN-02015 Finland
+358-9-451 2189
+358-9-451 4958
Casper.Lassenius@hut.fi