6.3 Suspended Ceiling Design Process - Bilkent University

process development effort is highly unlikely to succeed without a
comprehensive understanding of the existing state.
2. Information Technology (IT) Systems Development: Process models
are used in IT development projects as a means for discovering and
capturing the information content of a process and how that
information is to be exchanged between participants in the process.
3. Common Understanding of the Process: Process models are also an
important learning tool. A process model helps people visualize
where they are in a process and what they need and must produce
and when. In this way, it provides the basis for effective
collaboration.
Although the product modeling area has been well-established and
related work is more or less complete, process modeling still presents a
relatively less explored research domain (Eastman, 1999). In this
dissertation, the problem of collaboration in building design is studied
from a process modeling perspective.
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