摘要：AbstractIn general, Risk-Assessments or discussions about sustainable development of a product have mostly a pure technical focus, in order to secure the factors of time, cost, quality, functionality and market acceptance. This paper will review the significance that at the start of the project life cycle, it is of vital importance to also consider the maintainability or evolution of the initial product-mission in order to secure the success of the product. Planned evolution and maintenance of a product is not restricted to prepare the product to carry potential new functions without being completely hardware- or software-architecture redesigned. Considering the automotive market cost pressure of products, it is usually not possible to allow hardware to be ready for more than the predefined set of functions. This research will consider product architectures and also focus on the review of (multi) company team structures, company capabilities (i.e. skills) and company resources (i.e. infrastructure), which need to be considered and development to be able to react to the new market opportunities.
