| Software Product Line Adoption Roadmap |
SEP 2004 |
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| Authors:
Linda M. Northrop; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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 | The tremendous benefits of taking a software product line approach are well documented. Organizations have achieved significant reductions in cost and time to market and, at the same time, increased the quality of families of their software systems. However, to date, there are considerable barriers to organizational adoption of product line practices and to widespread product line practice. The Carnegie Mellon (Trademark) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) created the Product Line ... |
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| Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study |
NOV 2002 |
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| Authors:
Paul C. Clements; Linda M. Northrop; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| This report is another in a series of Software Engineering Institute (SEI(SM)) case studies of organizations that have adopted the software product line approach for developing systems. It details the story of Salion, Inc., an enterprise software company providing Revenue Acquisition Management solutions tailored to the unique needs of automotive suppliers. Salion's solutions enable suppliers to organize and manage their disparate customer-interfacing activities as one coordinated business process, resulting in ... |
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| Enterprise Framework for the Disciplined Evolution of Legacy Systems |
OCT 1997 |
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| Authors:
John K. Bergey; Linda M. Northrop; Dennis B. Smith; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| Many organizations are planning to migrate their legacy systems to distributed open system environments or a single product line of systems. Many of these efforts are often less than successful because they concentrate on a narrow set of software issues without fully considering a broader set of enterprise wide management and technical issues. This report describes an enterprise framework that characterizes the global environment in which system evolution takes place ... |
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| Software Architecture: An Executive Overview |
FEB 96 |
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| Authors:
Paul C. Clements; Linda M. Northrop; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| Software architecture is an area of growing importance to practitioners and researchers in government, industry, and academia. Journals and international workshops are devoted to it. Working groups are formed to study it. Textbooks are emerging about it. The government is investing in the development of software architectures as core products in their own right. Industry is marketing architectural frameworks such as CORBA. Why all the interest and investment? What is ... |
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