Customer Engagements > Product Line Practice (PLP) Services
SEI services are funded customer engagements to help organizations apply best practices. Specific product line practice (PLP) services are
- Product Line Executive Session
- Customized Product Line Solution
- Product Line Diagnosis Using the PLQL or the PLTP
- Product Line Adoption/Action Planning Workshop
- Tailored Management Assistance on Product Line Efforts
- Tailored Technical Support on Product Line Efforts
Additional details are provided at Product Lines Practice: Products and Services.
Product Line Executive Session
During
the half-day Product Line Executive Session, a product line expert from the SEI
provides an overview of software product lines to a designated group of
managers from the organization. The SEI expert facilitates a discussion about
software product lines and the potential for the organization’s adoption
of the approach.
Customized Product Line Solution
The SEI collaborates with organizations to develop a customized product
line solution, tailoring existing methods and approaches as necessary to fit
specific product or organizational needs.
Product Line Diagnosis Using the PLQL or the
PLTP
The SEI performs product line diagnostics using either the Product
Line Quick Look (PLQL), which is a one-day high-level examination, or the more
extensive Product Line Technical Probe (PLTP), which takes a week. The SEI team
documents the results of the diagnostics in a report provided to the customer
organization.
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Product Line Adoption/Action Planning
Workshop
The Product Line Adoption/Action Planning Workshop is a
natural follow-up to the Product Line Technical Probe (PLTP). The PLTP produces
a portrayal of the state of an organization’s product line practices. The
planning workshop helps translate that portrayal into a plan of action. The
workshop is a tailored, facilitated work session in which an SEI team works
with a customer team, typically over two days, to produce a product line
adoption plan or an action plan.
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Tailored Management Assistance on Product
Line Efforts
The SEI provides tailored management assistance to support
developing a product line adoption plan, business case, operating concept,
acquisition strategy, training plans, and appropriate data collection, metrics,
and tracking mechanisms. The following services are among those offered:
- Product Line Concept of Operations Workshop: During this two-day working session, SEI product line experts work with product line managers to develop a product line concept of operations (CONOPS).
- Product Line Business Case Workshop: During this two-day working session, SEI product line experts use the Structured Intuitive Model for Product Line Economics (SIMPLE) to help product line managers develop a product line business case.
- Product Line Acquisition Support: SEI experts work with an acquisition organization to develop requests for proposals; an acquisition strategy; statements of work; and contractor planning, tracking, and monitoring that are specific to a product line effort.
- Product Line Measurement Workshop: This three-day working session guides participants in defining meaningful measures aligned with their software product line goals and developing an action plan for obtaining these goals within the context of the processes in their product line efforts.
Tailored Technical Support on Product Line
Efforts
The SEI provides tailored technical assistance to support
scoping and product line analysis, architecture definition, architecture
evaluation, mining assets, migration planning, component development, and
testing.
- Product Line Analysis and Scoping Workshop: During this one-week working session, SEI experts guide an organization through a product line analysis that results in a preliminary set of product line artifacts that include a use case model, a feature model, an object model, a domain- and organization-specific dictionary, and a preliminary scoping document.
- Product Line Architecture Support: SEI product line experts help an organization to define a product line architecture with appropriate variation mechanisms as well as to document and evaluate the architecture.
- Product Line Variability Management Workshop: During this two- to three-day session, SEI product line experts guide an organization in understanding the goal of variability in a product line approach and help the organization determine appropriate variation points, variation mechanisms, and variability-management strategies and tool support.
- Product Line Production Planning Workshop: During this two-day session, SEI product line experts guide an organization through the initial development of a product-production strategy and provide tools and directions for applying that strategy to the creation of a production method and a production plan.
- Configuration Management Practice Workshop: During this two-day session, SEI product line experts lead a product line organization through the initial steps in developing or refining its configuration management practices for its software product line effort.