Systems Product Line Engineering Handbook

A Product Line is a set of products with common elements and variable features. Including Product Lines in an overall development strategy tailored to the commercial and/or industrial context delivers significant benefits: products that are more suitable, reduction in cost, shorter development timescales, quality improvement, etc.
This work, Systems Product Line Engineering, brings together a summary of the state-of-the-art with lessons learnt from industrial experience in implementing Product Lines of various kinds, in terms of marketplace, number of applications, degree of variability, etc. It is resolutely practical, and is intended to complement existing Systems Engineering manuals; indeed, it adopts the same process structures. It includes:
? Definitions and examples: Product Line, Product Lines organizations, Product Line Engineering,
? Processes, from needs analysis through to disposal,
? Systems Engineering methods, particularly Model-Based Product Line Systems Engineering,
? Organization: development in silos, development in platforms,
? Implementation strategies and management processes.
This work is intended for practitioners: engineers, project managers, instructors, researchers, students and developments of systems that fit into this approach.

Purpose
Readership
Product Line
Examples of Systems Product Lines
Product Line Types

Overview
Contents
Dimensions of Product Lines
Systems Engineering Process
Systems Engineering Process Reminders
Terms and Definitions
English version
Reading Guide
Section Scope
Cross-References

1 - Product Line Scoping
1.1. Scope
1.2. Potential benefits
1.3. Product Line Needs Analysis
1.4. Product Line Specification
1.5. Strategic Plan
1.6. Working in a Product Line Organization and Recurrent Costs

2 - Product Description and Management
2.1. Scope
2.2. Product Description
2.3. Product Organization
2.4. Reuse and Capitalization
2.5. Managing the Generic Product

3 - Enterprise Organization and Process Management
3.1. Systems Engineering Organization
3.3. Reuse and Capitalization Processes
3.4. Systems Engineering Process
3.5. Systems Engineering Team Organization
3.6. Process Management
3.7. Product Lines and Process Improvement

4 - Profit and investment Mangement
4.1. Scope
4.2. Return on Investment (ROI)
4.3. Using the ROI Tool
4.4. Planning the ROI
4.. Product Line Management
4.6. Lessons Learned from Experience

5 - Requirements Engineering
5.1. Scope
5.2. Types of Requirement Concerned
5.3. Stakeholder Needs and Requirements Definition
5.4. System Requirements Specification
5.5. Allocating Requirements to System Components
5.6. Requirements Management
5.7. Product Line Change Strategy

6 - Architectural Design 
6.1. Scope
6.2. Architectural Design
6.3. Robust Architectural Design
6.4. Reusable Architectural Design
6.5. Architectural Design driven by Reusability
6.6. Product Line Change Strategy

7 - System Building and System Tests
7.1. Scope
7.2. Tests
7.3. System Integration and Integration Tests
7.4. System Verification and Verification Tests
7.5. System Transition and Transition Tests
7.6. System Validation and Validation Tests
7.7. Other System Building Processes (QCA)
7.8. Product Line Change Strategy

8 - System Life Cycle Processes
8.1. Scope 8.2. Concept
8.3. Production
8.4. Operation
8.5. Maintenance (Support)
8.6. Disposal (Withdrawal)

9 - Model Based Product Line Systems Engineering 
9.1. Scope
9.2. Product Line Modelling
9.3. Model Based Product Line Systems Engineering Mockup

10 - Conclusions
10.1. Product Line Definition
10.2. Systems product line engineering
10.3. Product Line change strategy
10.4. State of Art
10.5. So now what…

Systems product line engineering Glossary
Index
Acronyms Technical References
Technical References for Systems Engineering
Technical Reference for Systems Product Line Engineering
Bibliography
Papers from the AFIS Product Line Working Group
General documentation on Systems Engineering
General documentation on Product Line
Advanced documentation on Product Line (for variability modeling)
Handbook Origin
Acknowledment

This work is intended for practitioners: engineers, project managers, instructors, researchers, students and developments of systems that fit into this approach.

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