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Tutorial:
Process Improvement for Software Product Lines


Grady Campbell
Prosperity Heights Software
8457 Van Court
Annandale, VA 22003 USA
website: www.domain-specific.com
voice: 1-703-573-3139
GradyCampbell@domain-specific.com

 

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Abstract

The goal of this tutorial is to present a systematic process improvement method that organizations can follow to adopt a product line approach to software development. Organizations that repeatedly build similar products adopt a product line approach in order to build those products more quickly with fewer errors and less rework. A product line approach focuses on how to identify and represent a family of similar products in the form of domain-specific reusable assets and an associated streamlined process for deriving products customized to each customer's specific needs.

Starting with an organization's business objectives and technical expertise, the described method guides product line adopters in how to:

  • evaluate the viability of a product line approach,
  • improve the organization's process and reuse maturity to an acceptable level,
  • target a beneficial and cost-effective level of reuse capability, and
  • implement a strategy for instituting corresponding product line practices.

This tutorial is targeted to experienced engineers and managers whose organizations repeatedly build similar products and want to achieve substantial improvements in software productivity and product quality. Tutorial attendees should be familiar with the principles and use of a conventional process improvement method such as the SEI Capability Maturity Model approach.

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Speaker

Grady Campbell has over 25 years experience in the theory and practice of software engineering. He started Prosperity Heights Software in 1996 to promote adoption and use of the Domain-specific Engineering (DsE) methodology by industry worldwide. DsE refines and extends the Reuse-driven Software Processes (Synthesis) product line methodology which he designed while working at the Software Productivity Consortium in the early '90s. Based on the concept of product families, RSP and DsE have been used successfully to institute and refine product line businesses in companies such as Rockwell and Lockheed-Martin, was a basis for the Boeing/Navy project of the DARPA STARS program, and was adopted as a corporate standard by Thomson-CSF. Mr. Campbell is also a Visiting Scientist with the Product Line Practice Initiative of the Software Engineering Institute.

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