Introduction

Software and Systems Product Line (SSPL) engineering and management creates, exploits and manages a common platform to develop a family of products (e.g. software products, systems architectures) at lower cost, reduced time to market and with better quality. As a result, it has gained increasing global attention since the 1990s. Strategic management and supports are provided by product line product management for a product family and its evolution. Product management should collaborate with product line scoping process for the detailed definition of a product family. Also markets, technologies and competitors are carefully and continuously observed for product family definition and its continuous evolution. Product management deals with the economic aspects of product family and in particular with the market strategy.

There are needs for defining product line-specific product management processes that integrate the involved product line disciplines with those for a single product. Furthermore, support of tools and methods are required so that a product line organization can perform product management under the systematic control of complexities. This document addresses the product line-specific processes in product management by dividing those into product management enablement, product management operation and product management support process areas with the guidance of a set of tools and methods capabilities for supporting tasks for product line product management.

This document is intended to benefit people who acquire, supply, develop, operate, and maintain tools and methods for product line product management. This document can be used in one or more of the following modes:

— By an organization intended to implement or operate product lines – to understand, adopt and enact the processes, tools and methods for product line product management. This also helps the organization to evaluate and select relevant tools and methods based on business and user-related criteria.

— By a tool vendor who facilitates or leverages product line engineering practices – to provide a set of tool capabilities that should be embodied in a tool for supporting product management enablement, product management operation and product management support.

The ISO/IEC 26550 family of standards addresses both engineering and management processes and capabilities of methods and tools in terms of the key characteristics of product line development. This document provides processes and capabilities of methods and tools for variability mechanisms in product lines. Other standards in the ISO/IEC 26550 family are as follows:

ISO/IEC 26550 , ISO/IEC 26551, ISO/IEC 26552, ISO/IEC 26553, ISO/IEC 26554, ISO/IEC 26555, ISO/IEC 26556, ISO/IEC 26557, ISO/IEC 26558, ISO/IEC 26559 are published. ISO/IEC 26561 and ISO/IEC 26562 are to be published. ISO/IEC 26563 is a planned International Standard.

— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for domain requirements engineering and application requirements engineering are provided in ISO/IEC 26551;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for domain design and application design are provided in ISO/IEC 26552;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for domain realization and application realization are provided in ISO/IEC 26553;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for domain testing and application testing are provided in ISO/IEC 26554;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for technical management are provided in ISO/IEC 26555;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for organizational management are provided in ISO/IEC 26556;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for variability mechanism are provided in ISO/IEC 26557;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for variability modelling are provided in ISO/IEC 26558;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for variability traceability are provided in ISO/IEC 26559;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for technical probe are provided in ISO/IEC 26561;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for transition management are provided in ISO/IEC 26562;
— Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for configuration management of asset are provided in ISO/IEC 26563;
— Others (ISO/IEC 26564 to ISO/IEC 26599): To be developed.

BS ISO/IEC 26560:2019

Software and systems engineering. Tools and methods for product line product management

Current

Published:

31 May 2019