Title :
The economic impact of product line adoption and evolution
Author :
Schmid, Klaus ; Verlage, Martin
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;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2002.1020287
