The Carnegie Mellon(Federal Registration) Software Engineering Institute held the Eighth Department of Defense (DOD) Product Line Practice Workshop in September 2005. The workshop was a hands-on meeting to share DoD product line practices, experiences, and issues and to discuss ways in which specific product line practices are accomplished within the DoD. Participants reported encouraging progress on DoD software product lines. This report synthesizes the workshop presentations and discussions.
Many organizations with an existing process improvement initiative also are considering software product line adoption. Managers and technical leaders in these organizations often ask how they can build on their process improvement work and reconcile these two significant change initiatives. This technical note addresses product line adoption in the context of an organization that is using the Capability Maturity Model (trademark) Integration (CMMI (trademark)) models to guide its process improvement ...
The Carnegie Mellon (trademark) Software Engineering Institute held the Seventh Department of Defense (DoD) Product Line Practice Workshop in September 2004. The workshop was a hands-on meeting to share DoD product line practices, experiences, and issues and to discuss ways in which specific product line practices are accomplished within the DoD. All of the participants were invited to give a short presentation about their organization's product line interests and experiences. ...
Industrial experience clearly demonstrates that a product line approach for software-intensive systems can save money and result in faster time to field higher quality systems. Many within the DoD recognize the benefits of product lines, but also recognize that there are significant challenges to adopting this approach. Many of these challenges stem from the fact that the DoD is in the business of ...
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