upcoming conferences

14th International Product Development Management Conference10-12 June, 2007. Porto, accepted papers must be received by April 12, 2007 and conditionally accepted papers must be received by April 05, 2007

EurOMA Conference, 17-20 June 2007, Ankara, Turkey http://www.euroma2007.org/
Notification of acceptance of abstracts February 19, 2007 Submission of full papers (final version) April 16, 2007

EURAM 2007 conference , May 16-19 http://www.euram2007.org/ Paris
The deadline for PhD Colloquium February 12, 2007

OR Society Annual Conference, 4-7 September Edinburgh
http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/(f2sy20bdy4imbsrkwzwilm3g)/orcontent.aspx?inc=or49_main.htm

British Academy of Management Conference, 11-13 September 2007, Warwickhttp://bam.ac.uk/conference2007/ 31 January deadline for all submissions

19th Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) meeting August 9-11, 2007 http://www.nhh.no/conferences/nff/ Deadline for the submission of abstract 15 Feb 2007
full paper submission 15th June

Computers & Industrial Engineering, Alexadria, Egypt, 20-23 october 2007
Submission of abstracts and proposals March 1, 2007
Full Paper July 1, 2007

System Dynamics Conference , Boston , USA 29 July-2August
http://www.systemdynamics.org/
Paper submission March 26, 2007

IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, 29 July-1 August 2007, Austin, Texas, USAhttp://www.iemc07.org/index.html 28 February 2007: Feedback on proposals to be provided 16 April 2007: Completed paper submission

22nd European Conference on Operational Research, Prague, 8-11 July 2007 http://euro2007.vse.cz/index.php abstract submission deadline 28 Feb 2007


INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7 2007, Seattle, USA asbtract submission 15 May http://meetings.informs.org/Seattle07/index.html


PMI research Conference, 13-16 July 2008, Warsaw, Polandhttp://congresses.pmi.org/ResearchConf2008/

Terminology

Fuzzy Front End: is the stage in the project wherer still the project team do not know about the scope and the very details of the project

Paper review - project cycle time

The Effect of Project and Process Characteristics on Product Development Cycle Time
Abbie Griffin
Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 34, No. 1, Special Issue on Innovation and New Products. (Feb., 1997), pp. 24-35.

The paper is based on a research which is aiming to empirically test the theories regarding the influence of complexity and newness to product development cycle time. In addition the paper examines if the use of cross functional teams and a formal product development process would influence the project performance.

The data for the research is gathered from diverse type of industry and companies and complexity and newness are operationalized by measures.

The paper in addition to testing the hypothesis concludesd that the application of cross functional teams in projects with high newness helps reducing product development cycle tme since these projects need more creativity and new ideas. Also the use of formal product development processes helps cycle time reduction when projects reach their physical design.