Economics of Software Product Development Collectives

Economics of Software Product Development Collectives

The traditional view of software development is that it occurs within a single company. While parts of the development may be sourced from outside the company, the final product has been specified, and is owned in full, by the company. When a company develops multiple products in the same domain, it benefits from organizing its software development activity as a product line (http://sei.cmu.edu...

Economics of Software Product Lines

Software Product Lines (SPL) offer tremendous potential to improve a company’s competitive position and responsiveness to changing market needs. However, unless the full benefits and costs are well understood by executive-level stakeholders, the probability of success will be low. An SPL economic analysis framework is presented that is based on the author’s experience with SPL adoption at Conve...

Improving Software Development Economics Part II: Reducing Software Product Complexity and Improving Software Processes

The Economics of Agility in Software Development

Exemplar driven development of software product lines

The benefits of following a product line approach to develop similar software systems are well documented. Nevertheless, some case studies have revealed significant barriers to adopt such approach. In order to minimize the paradigm shift between conventional software engineering and software product line engineering, this paper presents a new development process where the products of a domain a...