Increase of development success through an automated measurement and visualization of project progress

制造企业正面临着在产品开发项目中无法实现其技术和经济目标的挑战。其后果是薪酬倒退和形象受损导致的竞争力下降。为了在日益复杂的情况下实现关于质量、成本和时间的既定发展目标，有效和高效的项目管理是至关重要的。除了项目的启动、定义、计划和执行，项目控制是一个关键的成功因素。如果项目经理在项目中的任何时候都知道项目的确切进度，他就可以在质量问题或延误发生之前进行重新调整。现有的监控和可视化项目进度的方法和工具会根据项目员工的手动请求生成所需的信息。这造成了高度的行政努力和报告之间的长时间间隔。为了增加产品开发项目的成功，从而提高制造公司的竞争力，必须创建新的方法来监控和可视化项目进度。这些新方法需要自动生成项目进度。一个这样的机会是由产品开发的IT系统中的数据提供的(例如，CAD和过程模型)。这些数据包含项目进度的信息，可用于项目进度的自动监控和可视化。研究项目的主要目标是通过自动化项目进度监测和开发活动的可视化创建新的评估和控制机制，从而增加产品开发项目的成功。这种创新的方法不同于现有的方法，它从产品开发项目中使用的IT系统内的数据中自动收集所需的信息。因此，有可能进行更频繁和更详细的进度监测，从而提高项目的成功率，从而获得竞争优势。

Manufacturing companies are facing the challenge of not achieving their technical and economic goals in product development projects. Decreasing competitiveness due to regress payments and image losses are the consequences. To achieve the defined development goals concerning quality, costs and time despite the increasing complexity, an effective and efficient project management is of utmost important. Beside project initiation, definition, planning and execution, project controlling is a critical success factor. If the project manager would know the exact progress of the project at any time in the project he could readjust before quality issues or delays would occur. Existing methods and tools for monitoring and visualizing the project progress generate the needed information over manual requests from the project employees. This causes high administrative efforts and long intervals between the reports. To increase the success of product development projects and thus the competitiveness of manufacturing companies, it is essential to create new approaches for monitoring and visualizing the project progress. These new approaches need to generate the project progress automatically. One opportunity for this is provided by the data within the IT-Systems of the product development (e. g. CAD and process models). This data contains information of the project progress, which could be used for automatically project progress monitoring and visualization. The main objective of the research project is to increase the success of product development projects by creating new assessment and control mechanisms through automated project progress monitoring and visualization of the development activities. This innovative approach differentiates from existing approaches by automated gathering of the needed information from the data within the IT-Systems used in product development projects. Thus a more often and more detailed progress monitoring is possible, which leads to an increase of the project success and thus to a competitive advantage.