Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment
Many DoD organizations are considering product line initiatives as a means of overcoming the issues of quality, cost, and schedule inherent in a "one-at-a-time" system development or acquisition paradigm. Because a product line approach revolves around the creation of a comprehensive set of core assets, mining and adapting (i.e., reengineering) existing legacy system assets can offer significant leverage. By mining and adapting these assets, an organization can exploit the proven capabilities of existing systems, reduce the funding required, and develop/acquire new systems of higher quality within a shorter time frame.
This technical note focuses on providing guidance for DoD organizations for mining legacy systems to obtain core assets that will fit into a previously defined software architecture for a product line. We explain how insights from a conceptual model, Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR), can be used in an acquisition context to provide the government with an approach for obtaining greater insight and understanding into a contractor's proposed technical reengineering approach.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Acquisition SupportGeneral Interest
Software Product Lines
Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004
March 2000
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SEI:
Bergey, John; & Smith, Dennis. Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment (CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/00tn004.cfm
IEEE:
J. Bergey, and D. Smith, "Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004, 2000. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/00tn004.cfm
APA:
Bergey, J., & Smith, D. (2000) . Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment (CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004). Retrieved May 24, 2012, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/00tn004.cfm
CHI:
Bergey, John, and Dennis Smith. Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment (CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/00tn004.cfm
MLA:
Bergey, J., & Smith, D. 2000. Guidelines for Using OAR Concepts in a DoD Product Line Acquisition Environment (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2000-TN-004). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/00tn004.cfm
To find research on Software Product Lines that is more current, see Software Product Lines Research.
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