TY - GEN
T1 - Combining different product line models to balance needs of product differentiation and reuse
AU - Savolainen, Juha
AU - Kuusela, Juha
AU - Mannion, Mike
AU - Vehkomäki , Tuomo
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Software reuse is a key enabler for producing successful software intensive consumer products. Initially, just adopting reuse was enough to achieve competitive advantage; today an efficiently running product line is almost expected for any organization producing widely varying, software intensive consumer products. The major source for competitive advantage has shifted to product line management, and especially an organization’s ability to optimize the alignment of its product line development approach with its competitive strategy. In this paper, we explore ways to match product line development for an organization pursuing differentiation strategy. In this context, the success of the product line is determined by the success of the resulting products, their ability to gain differentiation against the competition as well as within the product portfolio.
AB - Software reuse is a key enabler for producing successful software intensive consumer products. Initially, just adopting reuse was enough to achieve competitive advantage; today an efficiently running product line is almost expected for any organization producing widely varying, software intensive consumer products. The major source for competitive advantage has shifted to product line management, and especially an organization’s ability to optimize the alignment of its product line development approach with its competitive strategy. In this paper, we explore ways to match product line development for an organization pursuing differentiation strategy. In this context, the success of the product line is determined by the success of the resulting products, their ability to gain differentiation against the competition as well as within the product portfolio.
KW - software product line
KW - software reuse
KW - competitive strategy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-68073-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-68073-4_11
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783540680628
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 116
EP - 129
BT - High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems
PB - Springer
ER -