A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development

A product line is a set of related systems that address a market segment. Building a product line out of a common set of core assets, as opposed to building each member system separately, epitomizes reuse. Although software technology is key to achieving a product line capability, organizational and process considerations are just as crucial. This report describes the experience of one company, CelsiusTech Systems AB of Sweden, that builds large, complex, embedded, real-time shipboard command-and-control systems as a product line, developed in common from a base set of core software and organizational assets. The report describes the changes that CelsiusTech had to make to its software, organizational, and process structures to redirect the company toward a product line approach that yielded substantial economic and marketplace benefits to the company.

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Authors

Lisa Brownsword

Paul C. Clements

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

Acquisition Support
Case Studies
Software Product Lines

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-96-TR-016
September 1996

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SEI:

Brownsword, Lisa; & Clements, Paul. A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development (CMU/SEI-96-TR-016 ). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr016.cfm

IEEE:

L. Brownsword, and P. Clements, "A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-016 , 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr016.cfm

APA:

Brownsword, L., & Clements, P. (1996). A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development (CMU/SEI-96-TR-016 ). Retrieved May 21, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr016.cfm

CHI:

Brownsword, Lisa, and Paul Clements. A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development (CMU/SEI-96-TR-016 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr016.cfm

MLA:

Brownsword, L., & Clements, P. 1996. A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development (Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-016 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr016.cfm

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