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Funding the PLE Factory in a Multi‐Customer Contract‐Based PLE Organization
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.12323
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , automation , feature (linguistics) , product (mathematics) , computer science , quality (philosophy) , product line , new product development , process management , knowledge management , manufacturing engineering , engineering management , engineering , software engineering , business , marketing , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , programming language
Feature‐based Product Line Engineering is a well‐defined, repeatable, automation‐centric PLE method that is delivering even improvements in time, cost, and quality. An organization intent on adopting it so they can reap the benefits for their product line or product lines needs a viewpoint focusing on the people involved and what they do to keep the PLE factory operational on a day‐to‐day basis. This article describes an organizational structure for Feature‐Based PLE based on the factory concept. It introduces the few roles that have no analog in other development disciplines; they are new to Feature‐Based PLE. It also describes how traditional systems engineering roles carry out traditional systems engineering tasks, but with slight PLE‐inspired extensions. Finally, we will explain why these changes are necessary.