Product Lines

(PHS publications listed separately)

Software Productivity Consortium

G.H. Campbell, S.R. Faulk, and D.M. Weiss, Introduction to Synthesis, June 1990. { request a copy from PHS }



G.H. Campbell, Synthesis Program - A Risk Analysis, August 1990.



G.H. Campbell, Synthesis Methodology Reference Model, September 1990.



Reuse-driven Software Processes (RSP) Guidebook (SPC-92019-CMC), Nov 1993.



Reuse Adoption Guidebook (SPC-93051-CMC), Nov 1993.



G.H. Campbell, "GSEP-based Engineering for Product Families" in A Tailorable Process for Systems Engineering, January 1995.

• G.H. Campbell, "Reengineering to Increase Maintainability and Enable Reuse", 4th NSWC Systems Reengineering Workshop, Feb 1994.
  
  
• J. O'Conner, et al. "Reuse in Command-and-Control Systems", IEEE Software 11, 5 (Sep 1994), pp. 70-79. { a report on an early experience with RSP in the original Rockwell project }
  
  
• R. R. Macala, et al., "Managing Domain-Specific, Product-Line Development", IEEE Software 13, 3 (May 1996), pp. 57-67. { a report on the Boeing STARS project experience with RSP }
  
  
• M.H. Meyer and A.P. Lehnerd, The Power of Product Platforms, The Free Press, 1997.
  
  
• P. Maheut, Final Report - ROADS, Thomson-CSF Technologies & Méthodes, May 1998. { describing the ESSI-supported Thomson-CSF corporate effort with PHS assistance to adopt a product line approach in multiple business units }
  
  
• M. Ezran, M. Morisio, and C. Tully, "Diversity in Reuse Processes", IEEE Software 17, 4 (July/Aug 2000), pp. 56-63. { summarizing their book Practical Software Reuse: the essential guide which includes a description of the Thomson-CSF project with PHS for corporate-level adoption of a product line approach for use in business units }
  
  
• T. Vehkomaki and K. Kansala, "A Comparison of Software Product Family Process Frameworks", International Workshop on Software Architectures for Product Families 3, 2000.

  Software Engineering Institute

  G.H. Campbell, A Software Product Line Vision for Defense Acquisition (CMU/SEI-2002-TN-002), June 2002.
  
  

  J. Bergey, et al, Fifth DoD Product Line Practice Workshop Report (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-007), June 2003. { Sections 3.3 and 3.4 report on Army STRICOM and Lockheed-Martin experience in using RSP for development of live training systems applications }

• Software Product Lines

  Tool Vendors

  BigLever Software : Gears
  
  

  Software Acumen : pure::variants

Broader Perspectives

• W. E. Deming, Out of the Crisis, MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1986.
  
  
• P.F. Drucker, The Practice of Management, Harper & Row, 1954.
  
  
• T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1970.
  
  
• F.P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1975.
  
  
• C. Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Harvard University Press, 1964; The Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, 1979; A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  
  
• W. Kent, Data and Reality, North-Holland, 1978.
  
  
• G.A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
  
  
• S. M. Davis, Future Perfect, Addison Wesley, 1987.
  
  
• B. J. Pine II, Mass Customization - The New Frontier in Business Competition, Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
  
  
• B. Laurel, Computers as Theatre, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
  
  
• B. Thomé (ed.), Systems Engineering, Wiley, 1993.