Modeling Variation in Production Planning Artifacts.
Gary Chastek, John D. McGregor · 2009
Production planning and variation modeling are interdependent parallel activities critical to the success of a software product line. Software product line organizations design a production capability to satisfy their business goals. That production capability is dependent on and must support the full range of product variation. Current techniques for variation modeling identify and handle variations among products but fail to recognize variations that result from business goals such as rapid time to market which are satisfied by how products are built. In this paper we present a view of our production planning technique and describe our preliminary research into its relation to variation modeling. 1.