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Traditional software engineering reaches its limits when facing increased complexity and variability of software products. Approaches like software product line engineering are considered promising to successfully tackle such challenges. However, to fully exploit its potential, any product- and reuse-focused development approach poses the need to closely link core software engineering activities with strategic and economic product aspects. Product management is generally expected to bridge this gap from business and product related goals to software life cycle activities, but often fails to deliver the promised outcomes. Moreover, software process improvement approaches generally lack the provision of explicit or detailed product management activities. – This paper presents the results of extracting key product management practices from selected software product line and product management frameworks. The obtained results are compared against ISO/IEC 12207 in order to identify directions for defining a standard conformant reference model for process improvement in product-oriented software development contexts.
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Stallinger, F., Neumann, R., Schossleitner, R., Zeilinger, R. (2011). Linking Software Life Cycle Activities with Product Strategy and Economics: Extending ISO/IEC 12207 with Product Management Best Practices. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_14
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