Comparing product development models to identify process coverage and current gaps: A literature review

This paper summarises international literature on product development from an engineering perspective to identify coverage and gaps in commonly used product development process models. As a result, we find a heterogeneous landscape of models describing the process. A comparative framework illustrating the emphasis and the scope of product development process models from different perspectives has been derived for our approach. This framework helps researchers and developers to identify suitable procedures for their specific perspective. Accordingly we discovered three areas (product development management, simultaneous development and information management) which are so far underrepresented in product development process models.