One of the most common syndromes in product development is to fight fires, unplanned allocation of resources to fix the problems found at the end of the product development cycle. Although he was widely criticized in the popular and scientific literature, fire is a common occurrence in most organizations for product development. Product development system is a turning point. In models of infectious diseases, the turning point is the threshold of infection and susceptibility, for which the disease is becoming an epidemic. In addition, in systems, product development, there is a threshold to address activities that the crossing, causing fire to spread rapidly from a few isolated projects for the entire system development. The location of the turning point, and, therefore, susceptibility of the system to fire a phenomenon defined resource in a stable state. Many of the current methods of aggregate resource planning is not enough, and managers wishing to avoid the fire of dynamic need to rethink their approach to managing multiproject development environments. "Hide
by Nelson P. Repenning, Paulo Goncalves, Laura J. Black Source: California Management Review 21 pages. Publication Date: July 1, 2001. Prod. #: CMR207-PDF-ENG
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