Introduction to product line management

• Describing the main challenges of a product line.
• Describing the different maturity levels of reuse management.
• Describing the notions / concepts associated with a product line.
• Describing standard processes for product line and reuse management.
• Analysing the organisational changes required for the effective implementation of a product line approach.
• Listing the available tool-based solutions to implement a product line approach.

UNDERSTANDING THE KEY CONCEPTS OF A
PRODUCT LINE APPROACH
• Context and challenges of mastering reuse,
• Issues and examples of variability,
• Maturity levels of reuse,
• Reference standards (ISO15288 - ISO26550 – ISO26580 – ISO26581),
• Definitions and key concepts,
• Illustration of the project / product line life cycle,
• Case study presentation.

UNDERSTANDING THE STEPS OF A FEATUREBASED
APPROACH
• Building the feature catalogue and practical workshops on the case study,
• Building the Shared Assets Superset and practical workshops on the case study,
• Defining feature selections for product instances (Bill of Features) and practical workshops on the case study,
• Presentation of configuration tooling and product instance generation,
• Presentation of product instances.

UNDERSTANDING THE ORGANISATIONAL
ASPECTS OF A PRODUCT LINE
• Project management and product line management, governance,
• Configuration management.

TOOLS TO SUPPORT DEPLOYMENT
• Examples of PLE tools (Pure Variants, feature IDE, Gears),
• Examples of PLM tools.

All profiles

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