Software product line engineering aims to reduce development time, effort, cost, and complexity by taking advantage of the commonality within a portfolio of similar products. The effectiveness of a software product line approach directly depends on how well feature variability within the portfolio is implemented and managed throughout the development...
Managing software product development is challenging but doing it well can be extremely rewarding. Profits from duplicating a product to thousands or millions of customers can be both luring and elusive. In order to successfully manage software product development in small software product businesses in turbulent environments, a holistic approach...
In the security industry, software development accounts for substantial product development cost overruns, schedule woes, and corporate credibility problems. If a company can't produce the right product at the right time with suitable quality, the highly visible consequences can be disastrous. In today's marketplace, time-to-market drives competitive advantage and, ultimately,...
The Open Source Software OSS landscape has changed dramatically in last few years. While OSS and its Free Software antecedent were largely driven by ideology and individual commitment, the main driving force of OSS is commercialization and opportunities for inter-organizational collaboration. OSS is no longer primarily about enthusiasts contributing to...
This Macrovision white paper highlights the features and benefits of FLEXnet Publisher, the premier software licensing solution that can help ISVs and other companies: Increase revenues through flexible pricing and packaging Turn unlicensed users into paying customers Automate license management Reduce operational and technical...
For a company in the software product business, it is essential to understand how to connect business management and software development and employ a solid, value-based approach in its decision-making. This position paper has two goals: our primary goal is to contribute to the understanding on how to manage software...
Software Product Families can be used for software mass customization. One major problem within family-based software engineering is the lack of methodological support for application engineering. The large number of decisions and dependencies between these decisions make the task complex and error-prone. Impacts of decisions are not known or overseen...
Understanding the role of product management in the business can be very confusing. It can also make or break the company. Not because it's particularly dirty or greasy, but because so few understand it, yet nearly everyone claims that they do - and none will hesitate to tell how badly...
Testing effectiveness for a software product can be improved by testing all possible combinations or by automation, but both these techniques incur high cost and time. There are solutions in this area based on Six Sigma methodologies that provide approaches like Orthogonal Arrays OA. OA is derived from the Design...
Product portfolio management is crucial to product-oriented software companies' long-term success but is mostly overlooked by current software engineering research. This paper presents preliminary results from a multiple case study on the state-of-the-practice and improvement of product portfolio management processes in three small product-oriented software companies. Findings suggest that implementing...
It is important to understand the different approaches to modeling variability and building a product line. This paper has described four different approaches to modeling variability, using parameterization, using information hiding, using inheritance, and using variation points. It is also possible to combine these approaches, for example parameterization could be...
Small companies in the software product business risk rework and market failure due to shortcomings in integrating a strategic perspective into management of product development. Because little guidance exists for helping such companies link business strategy with product development, author propose that improvement should begin with helping the key persons...
A business model is a manifestation of business strategy designed for a particular product/market situation, and in the software business, its four elements are revenue logic, marketing & sales, delivery and product strategy. While it is generally agreed that a company's product development processes should support its business models, explaining...
Research on product development often focuses on activities prior to product launch. However, for long-lived, adaptable products like software, post-launch updates can account for the major portion of life cycle benefits and costs. Thus, it is important to understand how development decisions can influence the dynamics of product evolution. In...
Testing can be difficult to integrate into software development. Approaches to software testing in relation to implementing software are based on the V-model of testing. The software process behind the V-model is the traditional waterfall model, and as such the traditional testing approaches cannot take iterative, incremental and agile approaches...
Now that the software world is beginning to migrate from selling tangible products to delivering intangible services, one shouldn't be surprised to see yet another chasm open up. In fact, almost everything that software product marketers have learned about their craft - pricing, sales messages, customer relationships, channels, promotions -...
This article presents a different way to view refineries and petrochemical plants as part of the supply chain and a way to design for data integration of any application to any other application via COTS software products configurable/adaptable/integratable-offthe-shelf software products. The resulting nimble refiner or petrochemical plant is likely to...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Park City Group Reports Pact with International Supermarket RetailerC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Park City Group, a developer and marketer of patented computer software and consulting services for retailers, announced that as a result of its customer experiencing ongoing and substantial increases in...
Conformia, the market leader of product andprocess lifecycle management PPLM solutions for life sciences, todayintroduced the Conformia Design Suite, a Web-based software solution thatautomates the design of new drugs during the lab scale environment. TheDesign Suite completes Conformia's Product and Process lifecycle managementoffering for Pharma by providing full capabilities from...
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), makers ofNorton security software, today announced that Toshiba America InformationSystems, Inc., Digital Products Division and Toshiba of Canada Limited willinclude Norton 360 or Norton InternetSecurity 2008 on all of its laptop computers. Toshiba will offer afull-featured complimentary 60-day introductory subscription...
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