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CHANGE MANAGEMENT PATTERNS IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES.

This article presents a case study related to software product lines. The authors note that software product lines often undergo numerous changes to meet the evolving needs of their various market segments,Software managers generally answer two questions: Whether there are general patterns of change...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 68 - 73
Main Authors: Mohan, Kannan, Ramesh, Balasubramaniam
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2006
Subjects:
Computer software industry
Product management
Management software
Commercial products
Product lines
Production management (Manufacturing)
Case studies
Supply chains
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article presents a case study related to software product lines. The authors note that software product lines often undergo numerous changes to meet the evolving needs of their various market segments,Software managers generally answer two questions: Whether there are general patterns of change that are common in product lines, and how management practices can be utilized to execute these changes. The case study examines large scale product lines of supply chain management systems, examining how management practices changed over the lifetime of certain products.