Clearing the Way for Software Product Line Success

We mostly see two strategic pitfalls across the board: failure to recognize that a SPL approach is both a business and a technical strategy, and failure to manage the product-line-unique aspects of both governance and roll-out appropriately. How would you know if your organization suffers from either or both? These two pitfalls lead naturally to four high-level diagnostic questions, the answers to which are best discovered by answers to subordinate questions. Rather than describe a set of symptoms, we'll begin by letting you be your own doctor and consider a series of self-diagnostic questions based on what we've found lacking.