Rob's Software Engineering Logbook
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Product Line Acquisition in the DoD: The Promise, The Challenges
by Lawrence G. Jones
I found this article to be a good read. One of the key points that Jones addresses is that to maintain a successful Product Line Architecture, you need to be continuously developing your Core Assets & your unique Products. He emphasizes that a major technical hurdle is positioning the Core Assets in a way that they can be reused seamlessly over and over again.
I tend to agree with this, because at the company I work for (which does DoD development) this is exactly one of the problems we face. I am actually going to begin attending meetings with representatives from two separate projects that have similar software components to develop. Both programs are reletively new - but based on the same legacy software.
Hopefully, by tapping into resources like the article by Jones, our two projects will gain guidance towards the concept of a Product Line.
by Lawrence G. Jones
I found this article to be a good read. One of the key points that Jones addresses is that to maintain a successful Product Line Architecture, you need to be continuously developing your Core Assets & your unique Products. He emphasizes that a major technical hurdle is positioning the Core Assets in a way that they can be reused seamlessly over and over again.
I tend to agree with this, because at the company I work for (which does DoD development) this is exactly one of the problems we face. I am actually going to begin attending meetings with representatives from two separate projects that have similar software components to develop. Both programs are reletively new - but based on the same legacy software.
Hopefully, by tapping into resources like the article by Jones, our two projects will gain guidance towards the concept of a Product Line.
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