Aspects of information maturity in design and development

Abstract

Abstract Large-scale design and development projects involve working with immature information and transferring it between colleagues, departments and suppliers. Information’s maturity is an important consideration for many decisions, such as how much effort to dedicate to tasks given the maturities of their inputs, how much to overlap project phases given the maturity of information available for early release, and how much allowance to give for possible changes to preliminary information. An understanding of information maturity could also help to interpret and learn from archived project information. However, there are multiple perspectives on the meaning of information maturity and an agreed understanding of its aspects has not yet emerged. This article contributes an integrating taxonomy that defines and delineates 18 distinct aspects of information maturity in the design and development context. The new taxonomy integrates concepts from literature, clarifies that information can mature along numerous dimensions during design and development, and may inform future research into preliminary information management in large-scale projects.

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