The impact of Software Product Lines from a Product Management perspective

Abstract

In this research, we follow a well validated and already used at numerous Product Software Companies (PSC) Competence model, the SPM Competence Model and Maturity Matrix. This Competence model serves as the foundation of SPM for this research. Through an extensive literature study, we identified the key practices of SPL. These SPL-practices describe product management activities that are performed in a SPL development environment. In this research we evaluated the identified SPL-practices through experts active in SPL development and structured them accordingly through implementation into the SPM maturity matrix, making it the SPLM (Software Product Line Management) maturity matrix.