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Software Product Lines
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TECHNOLOGIES

Acquisition Organizations
and Product Lines
Architectures for SPLs
Business Case
Diagnostic Instruments
Economic Model
Factory
Framework for SPL Practice
PLP Patterns
Product Line Analysis
Production Plan
Products and Services

LEARNING

Getting Started
Adopting Software
Product Lines
Bibliography
Curriculum
Glossary
Pedagogical Product Line
Presentations
Publications
(by type and date)
Publications
(by topic)
Success Stories

COMMUNITY

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Hall of Fame
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Software Architecture
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Certifiable Components
Product Line Systems Program

Product Line Practices: The 20th Century Collection

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Organizations of all types and sizes are discovering that a product line strategy, when skillfully implemented, can improve productivity, quality, and time to market. Making the move to product lines, however, is a business and technical decision, and requires considerable changes in the way organizations practice software engineering, technical management, and organizational management.

During the last five years, the SEI has maintained a fairly comprehensive software product line bibliography, keeping track of the growth of the field by cataloguing the journal papers, conference papers, technical reports, and books on or related to the subject.

As the new century dawned, it became infeasible to continue growing this collection. Instead, our attention is now on the best of the best: What are the essential papers or books that should be on the software product lines bookshelf? Would you like to submit your recommendation(s)? If so, please use our online form to nominate your recommendation(s) for the bookshelf. All nominations will appear below.