Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line

This case study describes a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) weapon system development effort and compares the current way of developing software systems to the product line approach. The report describes a product line business case acquisition context, alternative development paths, and a comparison of their merits. While the report "sanitizes" the actual organization and product line, it typifies the process of building a product line business case.

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Author

Sholom G. Cohen

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Case Studies
General Interest

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020
April 2001

Cite This Report

SEI:

Cohen, Sholom; Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line (CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020 ). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tn020.cfm

IEEE:

S. Cohen, "Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020 , 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tn020.cfm

APA:

Cohen, S., (2001). Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line (CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020 ). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tn020.cfm

CHI:

Cohen, Sholom, Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line (CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tn020.cfm

MLA:

Cohen, S., 2001. Case Study: Building and Communicating a Business Case for a DoD Product Line (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2001-TN-020 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tn020.cfm

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