Resumen
The article examines computer supported collaborative design to help address design concerns, and issues sprouting up later to software development life cycle. Once the design of a complex artifact has been distributed to many players, encouraging proper influence relationships and local search strategies is the primary tool available to design managers, and should therefore be supported by computer-supported collaborative design technology. This can occur in several ways. It can help monitor the influence relationships between design participants, allowing someone to track the volume of design-related exchanges or the frequency with which design changes proposed by one participant are accepted by other participants. This can be helpful in many ways. For example, highly asymmetric influences could represent an early warning sign of non-convergent dynamics. Computer-supported collaborative design technology can also help assess the degree to which the design participants are engaged in routine versus innovative design strategies.