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Collaboration

As mentioned in the section about the process core does a full engineering process embrace a broad spectrum of different dimensions which all are acting together simultaneously. Besides the process core as such we will distinguish at least the following dimensions:

The users as the group of people which will work with the results of the engineering process
The engineering team which is responsible for the engineering process
The communication of the users as well as certain kinds of collaboration
The communication of the engineering team as well as certain kinds of collaboration
The communication between the users and the engineering team as well as certain kinds of collaboration
The languages, operating systems and hardware as the 'medium' of realization of the abstract ideas of the engineering team
The tools used by an engineering team
The theories which inform the heads of the engineering team what to do
The Theories/ Models/ Opinions which inform the heads of the users what to do
The environment of the engineering team imposing some restrictions (Laws, standards, conventions, rules, ....) on the engineering process
The environment of the users imposing some restrictions (Laws, standards, conventions, rules, ....) on the usage of the engineered system
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The most important dimension(s) seem to be the communication and collaboration dimension(s). The reason for this is that in teams with more than one member the coordination of the different brains can only be managed by communication and collaboration. As the complexity of the engineering task is increasing, as well as the number of team members, the more demanding will the communication and collaboration between the team members as well as with the users be. Because the capability of a human person to handle complexity per time unit is limited, one has to take into account the 'optimal' size of teams in connection with the capacity of communication and collaboration capacities.

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