Design of a Portfolio Management System for Software Line Development: Merging the Gap between Software Project and Product Management (eBook)

Michael Lang (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
125 Seiten
Anchor Academic Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-95489-718-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Tracy (1995, p. 19) emphasises in his book that in the twenty-first century, tomorrow will be more different from today than in the past. Therefore today's corporations get to stay innovative, reinvent themselves continuously and have to design new business. In contrast to that, software mastery becomes more than ever the key factor for business success (Northrop, 2008, p. 12). In the twenty-first century, software pervades every sector and has become the bottom line for many organisations. Therefore, reusability plays a growing role for every business in today's rapid changing world (Strahringer, 2003, p. 5). Thus, new paradigms in software engineering are focusing on the reutilisation and modularisation of software solutions. One innovative and growing concept since 2003 is software line development which has its origin in the automotive and fashion industry (Strahringer, 2003, p. 5). The key benefit of software line development is the covering of a wide field of application with minimal extra costs by reuse of a common software platform. In reference to Ebert & Smouts (2003, p. 29) the most publications in the field of software lines deal with configuration and change management. Whereas the integration of software line development into enterprises' product portfolios has been till now widely neglected. In contrast to that Jeffery & Leliveld (2004) points out that the failure or success of software lines highly depends in particular on their level of integration into companies' product portfolio system. For this reason, the major goal of this research is the realisation of an integrated portfolio management system for software line development. This covers at first the determination of the role portfolio management in organisational governance. Thereafter the general elements of a portfolio management system will be identified. On the other side, the specific demands of software line engineering according to the portfolio elements will be analysed. The insights of the analysis build the basis for the design of the software product line portfolio management system. The design describes the portfolio management system from different architectural perspectives which represent the viewpoint of the diverse stakeholders. Moreover, different analysis methods will be evaluated with a respective scoring model for the software line product, domain and asset application domain. At the end, the scientific work gives a suggestion for further investigations in [...]

Michael Lang is an inhouse consultant in one of the Fortune 5 companies with the focus on business innovation and organizational development. He has five years experience in project management in global international teams spread around Europe, Brazil and India. His passion is supporting people to achieve their fullest potential by consulting, coaching and training. In his free time he helps people improving their speaking skills at Toastmasters and coaches students to find the career they ever wanted at ROCK YOUR LIFE!

Inhalt

Design of a Portfolio Management System for Software Line Development: Merging the Gap between Software Project and Product Management 1
Contents 5
1. Introduction 13
2. Purpose of the Research 15
3. Organisation of the Research 17
3.1 Research Approach 17
3.1.1 Research Model 17
3.1.2 Research Method 18
3.2 Structure of Thesis 18
4. Fundamentals 21
4.1 Fundamentals of Portfolio, Program and Project Management 21
4.1.1 Overview 21
4.1.2 Principles of Portfolio Theory 22
4.1.3 Product Portfolio Management 24
4.1.4 Program Management 33
4.1.5 Project Management 34
4.1.6 Relationship of Portfolio, Program and Project Management 35
4.1.7 Critical Discussion 37
4.2 Fundamentals of Software Product Line Engineering 39
4.2.1 Overview 39
4.2.2 Principles of Product Line Engineering 39
4.2.3 Principles of Software Product Line Engineering 43
4.2.4 Software Product Line Engineering 48
4.2.5 Single-System versus Software Product Line 56
4.2.6 Project versus Product Paradigm 57
4.2.7 Critical Discussion 58
5. Portfolio Management System for Software Line Development 61
5.1 Role of Portfolio Management in Organisational Governance 61
5.2 Justification of Research Topic 63
5.3 Overview of Research Approach 65
5.4 Analysis of Software Line Portfolio Management 67
5.4.1 Analysis of Research Status in Portfolio Management 67
5.4.2 Analysis of Software Product Line Demands 71
5.4.3 Comparison of Application Domains and Building Blocks 75
5.4.4 First Concept of Software Line Portfolio Management System 76
5.5 Design of Software Line Portfolio Management System 77
5.5.1 Overview 77
5.5.2 Logical View 78
5.5.3 Module View 80
5.5.4 Process View 89
5.5.5 Organisational View 92
5.6 Evaluation of Portfolio Analysis Methods 94
5.6.1 Overview of Evaluation Approach 95
5.6.2 Product Portfolio Analysis 96
5.6.3 Domain Portfolio Analysis 97
5.6.4 Asset Portfolio Analysis 100
5.6.5 Conclusion 100
5.7 Application of Software Line Portfolio Management System 101
6. Discussion 103
6.1 Strengths of Research 103
6.2 Limitations of Research 104
7. Summary 105
8. Prospects 107
Bibliography 109
Index 115
A. Research Method 118
B. Portfolio Management 119
C. Expert Interview Guideline 125

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-95489-718-0 / 3954897180
• ISBN-13: 978-3-95489-718-6 / 9783954897186