Defining Product Lifecycle Management: A Journey across Features, Definitions, and Concepts

Table 1

Research phases.

Starting phase	Analysis phase	Validation phase
At the whole community	At PLM Background work group	At the whole community
Tool: focus group	Tool: blog, face-to-face meetings	Tool: blog, focus group
Findings: three sets of PLM features	Findings: (i) critical review; (ii) a PLM definition proposal	Findings: a final PLM definition