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This 18 page paper examines three different product development models; the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Conceptual Design and the Product Realization Process (PRP). The first looks at the stages a company will evolve through with their product development processes, the later two are the stages the product design itself will traverse. The three models are discussed and then compared. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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concepts; alternatively they will be completely new products. The companies that develop these will have undertaken a development process, either defined or by default, but with the majority of literature
and attention focused on aspects such as marketing and research the actual product development processes receive little attention. AS with any other aspect of business, there are stages that will
have to be traversed and tasks undertaken. These may vary dependant on the company, the product and the process, but the use of models gives a framework from which product
development may be understood and then bettered. In this paper we will look at thee models of product development processes; the Capability Maturity Model; the conceptual design process and the
product realization process. 2. The Capability Maturity Model This is a product development model that was first developed at Carnegie-Mellon Universitys Software Engineering Institute (Crow, 2005). The model describes the
five stages of development in the evolution or maturity process and looks at the capabilities of the company as well in the product development. This is a pathway to guide
the users from the initial stage where there is only an idea with no structure, to the developed and mature process that is seen at the end of the path
(Crow, 2005). Although designed with software in mind this is equally as applicable to price development processes (Crow, 2005). To examine this we can look at the five stages; the
initial level, the repeatable level, the defined level, the managed level and the optimised level (Crow, 2005). The initial level is the immature stage where development is ad hoc.
This stage is one with little organisational support and reflects the organisation understanding of this new product and as such management systems are not geared to coping with the product
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