Product Line Practice Workshop Report.
Len Bass, Paul Clements, Sholom G. Cohen, Linda Northrop, James Withey · 1997
: The first Software Engineering Institute Product Line Practice Workshop was a hands-on meeting held in December 1996 to share industry and government practices in software product lines and to explore the technical and non-technical issues involved. This report synthesizes the workshop presentations and discussions, which identified factors involved in product line practices and analyzed issues in the areas of architecture, peopleorganization -management, and business models. 1 Introduction 1.1 Why Product Line Practice? Historically, software engineers have designed software systems one system at a time. Each software product involves significant investment in requirements analysis, architecture and design, documentation, prototyping, process and method definition, tools, training, implementation, and testing. Little attention has been paid to the consequences of a design in the production of multiple software-intensive products. Some organizations now realize that they can no lon...