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To accomplish this, multifunctional design teams are organized with team members from different functional departments interacting in every phase of development tasks. However, without proper task coordination and team organization, communication and cooperation among a large number of dependent or interdependent tasks and team members could seriously delay project completion. This calls for the intention of this research to study the underlying structure of the project tasks. The objectives of this research are: (1) to develop a project task coordination model that identifies the sequence of all project tasks and reveals the underlying structure of the design process; (2) to decompose large interdependent task groups into smaller and manageable task groups by transforming the binary form of task relationships into the quantifiable task coupling strength and (3) to provide a structural foundation for the efficient team organization in concurrent engineering. 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