The paper describes a set of seven fundamental
principles for achieving “best concurrency and simultaneity.”
The concurrent approach is gaining worldwide attention
at this moment. The paralleling of life-cycle activities
and process restructuring are being deemed necessary by
more and more industries. An automobile product development
process example is used in this paper to illustrate many
aspects of these seven principles. The principles help
the concurrent teams, first, to define how to decompose
the product, process and work activities and then, how
to arrange these decomposed activities so that “best
concurrency and simultaneity” can be achieved.