• DocumentCode
    790825
  • Title

    The economic impact of product line adoption and evolution

  • Author

    Schmid, Klaus ; Verlage, Martin

  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    50
  • Lastpage
    57
  • Abstract
    An organization faces many challenging decisions when transitioning to product line development: What is the best way to adopt a product line approach? How can we avoid disrupting regular product development? Once adopted, how should we evolve the product line? The article discusses how to optimize a product line´s economic benefits by considering the adoption context and using product line scoping techniques.
  • Keywords
    economics; software development management; commodity; economic impact; families of systems; market segments; product line adoption; product line evolution; software development; Corporate acquisitions; Costs; Economic forecasting; Investments; Licenses; Programming; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Turning; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2002.1020287
  • Filename
    1020287