| Companies that design systems which include both hardware and software components are finding that parallel design techniques are being increasingly employed as software becomes a larger component of complex electronic systems.;This study investigated hardware-software coordination, from a managerial versus technical perspective, by developing a questionnaire which was administered to 18 projects from companies in complex electronic system design industries.;A model testing coordination mechanisms and their effects on project success was developed. The results showed that two of the hypothesized organizational-level coordination mechanisms, number of levels to common report and physical distance between hardware and software design teams, were found to be correlated with project success. Two hypothesized variables which were thought to help coordinate interdependent tasks, developers that had mutual hardware and software design experience and shared design tools, were negatively correlated with project success. |
