Case Study of a Software Company
PROJECT BASED PRODUCTION IN A SOFTWARE COMPANY
The article presents a Greek company that develops pioneering software systems for multidisciplinary CAE processes and specially provides the appropriate technical support to the customers in order to use appropriately the specific programmes. The purpose of the current presentation of the company is the understanding of the idea of Project based production through the structure and the way of working in the company. Based on the deductive research, it is presented firstly the general information of the company and then more specific details of the way that the company faces every different customer (project). Interviews and existing theories of relevant articles would be the main tools for the current research and provide the relevant data for the final results of the study. Aiming the reflection of the company’s actions, the results would lead in the way of improving the existing processes and specifically the existing Project based production practices that are implemented in the company . Finally, some conclusions are drawn concerning the current situation of the company and the way of they react in every project, that undertake to carry out, having into consideration the deadlines and the different needs of every customer and the most important into a problem in knowledge and information sharing that is appeared through the procedure of delivering the final product.
Keywords: Project Based production, modularity, knowledge sharing, information, project management
INTRODUCTION
The current software company is an continuously growing enterprise based in Thessaloniki of Greece from 1999. Some years ago, a team of students in engineering took the risk and decided to create a company using only the knowledge and the education that they have acquired from their studies. Nowadays, the enterprise has 150 employees that they are working in a pleasant environment and aiming to deliver the best results for the
The article presents a Greek company that develops pioneering software systems for multidisciplinary CAE processes and specially provides the appropriate technical support to the customers in order to use appropriately the specific programmes. The purpose of the current presentation of the company is the understanding of the idea of Project based production through the structure and the way of working in the company. Based on the deductive research, it is presented firstly the general information of the company and then more specific details of the way that the company faces every different customer (project). Interviews and existing theories of relevant articles would be the main tools for the current research and provide the relevant data for the final results of the study. Aiming the reflection of the company’s actions, the results would lead in the way of improving the existing processes and specifically the existing Project based production practices that are implemented in the company . Finally, some conclusions are drawn concerning the current situation of the company and the way of they react in every project, that undertake to carry out, having into consideration the deadlines and the different needs of every customer and the most important into a problem in knowledge and information sharing that is appeared through the procedure of delivering the final product.
Keywords: Project Based production, modularity, knowledge sharing, information, project management
INTRODUCTION
The current software company is an continuously growing enterprise based in Thessaloniki of Greece from 1999. Some years ago, a team of students in engineering took the risk and decided to create a company using only the knowledge and the education that they have acquired from their studies. Nowadays, the enterprise has 150 employees that they are working in a pleasant environment and aiming to deliver the best results for the
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