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Applying Product Line Concepts in Small and Medium-Sized Companies

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Peter Knauber,

Dirk Muthig,

Klaus Schmid,

Tanya WidenAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 17, Issue 5

Pages 88 - 95

https://doi.org/10.1109/52.877873

Published: 01 September 2000 Publication History

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Small and medium-sized enterprises work under heavy constraints: They need to be very flexible and fast in their reaction to customer requests, thus limiting their possibility for long-term planning. In a partially publicly funded project, the authors have started to apply their Product Line Software Engineering method developed at Fraunhofer IESE, in six small and medium-sized companies addressing six different domains. The article presents first experience and lessons learned from 24 months of project work; including first results within the companies.

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