important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety …

important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety …, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our … very different organizational forms. At one extreme are commercial software firms, in which the organizational participants …

The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on software to support its competitive position. However, the uncertain … and dynamic nature of today's global marketplace dictates that this software be continually evolved and adapted, to meet … new business challenges. This ability – to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software …

software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define … software products--the Linux operating system and the Mozilla Web browser--that were developed via contrasting modes of … differences in structure between Linux and the first version of Mozilla, suggesting that Linux had a more modular architecture …

. However, we lack a formal theory and model of modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction … by looking at the design evolution of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure …-world modularization activities in one case allowed for different rates of evolution in different software modules and in another case …