With Collaborative Task Management towards Lightweight Distributed Engineering Processes

A clear trend in the development of industry products is that due to shorter development time and keen competition more and more distributed networks of enterprises and suppliers cope with the engineering processes. These changes request new IT solutions for collaborative task management in distributed teams wherein team members are essentially involved in the process management and responsible for its progress. This paper presents based on an application scenario and the resulting requirements the SAGE platform, a system that provides functions to support lightweight distributed engineering processes by collaborative task management