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It's About Time: Temporal Management in Feature‐Based Product Line Engineering
Author(s) -
Clements Paul
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
insight
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-4868
pISSN - 2156-485X
DOI - 10.1002/inst.12321
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , product (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , feature (linguistics) , work (physics) , intellectual property , computer science , product line , production (economics) , consumption (sociology) , business , risk analysis (engineering) , process management , engineering , manufacturing engineering , economics , microeconomics , mathematics , paleontology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , sociology , biology , programming language , operating system , mechanical engineering
Feature‐based product line engineering employs the PLE factory concept in which all development occurs for any product line product. Any organization employing this paradigm in a contract‐based (as opposed to a mass market) context must answer the question: Who pays for the work inside the factory that may benefit multiple contracts? The answer can be surprisingly complex, involving security, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property protection issues of both the PLE organization and its customers. This article offers a method for answering this question by establishing processes to create charge numbers to which everyone working in the PLE factory can charge their effort. These processes must connect the funding supply to the funding consumption in a way that is fair, equitable, and compliant with applicable rules and regulations.