How do you get a thousand engineers to agree on the design a complex product in a timely way? How do you design such a product to be modular, so that portions of it can be more easily changed or ...

A design structure matrix (DSM) is a visual analysis tool used for system modelling. Simple and concise, it uses an NxN square matrix to represent the relationships between N system elements. Data ...

LaMantia, Matthew J., Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak. "Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory." Harvard ...

The International Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Conference has been the forum to exchange developments, trends, and ideas to propel complexity management in all kinds ...

The integration mechanism in a matrix organizational design has four components. Standardization makes organizational units operate the same way. Regulations formalize how to take action. Common goals ...

MacCormack, Alan. "Exploring the Architecture of Complex Software Products." In Design Structure Matrix Applications. Paper presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 5–8, ...