IBM Rational 8/16 Webinar Presentation

Greg Gorman, Program Director
World-Wide Systems Engineering Strategy and Delivery
IBM Software, Rational

Product Line Engineering

Innovation for a smarter planet
© 2011 IBM Corporation

Software and Systems Engineering | Rational

Agenda

1 The Business and Engineering Challenge:
•Deliver innovation while managing complexity

2 The Need to Re-Evaluate:
•Business models and development processes

3 The Key to Selecting the Right Solution:
•Entry points and the lifecycle solution

2 © 2011 IBM Corporation


Software is driving innovation
and enabling customization

 Customers are demanding high-quality tailored solutions
 Pressure to establish a strategic “re-use” strategy
 Need to adhere to safety standards, compliance and regulations
 Trend toward mass customization - shorter product lifecycles
 Need to align business goals with technology capabilities

Source: 2010 IBM CEO Study
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While introducing Complexity
that few are prepared to handle

More Complex Than a Fighter Jet: Safety regulations and consumer demand for performance
and convenience have led to an exponential spike in cars’ software complexity.
source, HBR, June 2010



Companies must reevaluate traditional
business models and product development processes



And understand the convergence
of business goals and engineering capabilities

The need to innovate intelligently with less

An iterative process



IBM is helping to address the complexity challenge
with two approaches

Variant Management via Strategic Re-use:

Variant management approach that enables companies to
strategically reuse systems and software assets within a
development domain – starting with an “entry point”.

Product Line Engineering:

New generation lifecycle approach that enables the shift from asset
reuse to asset sharing – across an entire product line portfolio and
throughout each stage of the lifecycle. Enables feature-based
product line engineering and automated production for delivering a
complex portfolio of products, with less time and cost.



Product Line Engineering (PLE) Solutions
Alignment of Business Objectives and Engineering Capabilities

Approaches: Solutions:

Strategic reuse to new generation lifecycle approach
Variant Management via IBM Rational Solution for System
Strategic reuse and Software Engineering
 Define entry points  OSLC and Jazz based
 Build strategy to leverage existing artifacts  Technology
within and across domains  Best practices
 Product and Portfolio Management
 Industry expertise
 Requirements Engineering
 Model-Driven Approach  Services
 Change and Configuration Management  Collaborative cross-domain integrations
 Quality Management
IBM and BigLever PLE Solution
Lifecycle PLE  PLE Engineering Lifecycle Framework
 Define product line features, profiles and  Automated feature-based production system
variation points
 Pragmatic 3-Tiered Methodology
 Establish automated feature-based
 Industry-leading PLE technology, expertise &
production line
services


Foundation: Systems & Software Engineering Solution
Technology, best practices, services and industry solutions

Product and Portfolio Management
Focal Point



Product and Portfolio Management Approach

• Not develop what • Minimize missed
not wanted – do market opportunity
right thing right

• Process • Align engineering • Leverage
integrate capability with biz social media
change/defect/ objectives – vice/versa
• Supply chain
improvement/ feedback
innovation
Converge
• Engineering
• Understand Business and capability and
financial impact Engineering
Manage & Innovative feedback

• Re-evaluate Change Ways to • Customer
value Innovation Solicit Ideas feedbacks

• Develop method to Understand Evaluate
balance subjective Decision Features &
and objective value Process Define • Target investment levels
Functions
Consistent • IT Goals
Criteria • Strategy/business
• Financial/enterprise
• Expose “how” • ROI/portfolio
the decision • Coordination/initiative
process to the • Project/product/team
organization
• Allows for • Trade-analysis
accountability and weighting
and process
transparency



Requirements Engineering Approach

• Simplify complexity –
• Design reusable variation
models/assets
• Tracelinks,
• Trace variation trace-
• Visualize system and modules
to test plan and
variation points
back to
products • Understand trace
impacted from variation to
Structural and requirements
Behavior Analysis
Lifecycle • Data to support
• Understand Validate and Traceability compliance
impact across Analyze
lifecycle
Change
• Manage Communicate • Translate
change of and impact
business to
feature or analysis Understand product
function and define requirements
• Manage change
in product line
• Translate
product to
• Identify origin
feature/function
and impact of
• Specify • Define common requirements
defect
business rules assets

• Define feature • Identify variation
profiles points



Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach

• Inheritance clone • Code visualization
and own
software libraries
libraries

• Architecture • Common • SW
discovery Services Frameworks
• Provides visual
representation of
product (s)
 Understand & Software
document product Re-use
line decisions for nth • Design
product cross patterns
domain Systems Graphical
Modeling Design

Behavioral • Traceability
 Develop product Simulation Collaboration
line what/if
scenarios
Componentization • Standard languages
to get multiple
• Product specific product teams on
Makefile and test same page
generation

• Transition from
architecture to product
components
• Code mining



Change and Configuration Management Approach
Introducing Collaboration, Workflows and Reporting
• Apply same defect
to multiple streams

• Same issue can
affect multiple
products
• Focus on • Diff streams for
delivery of mining purposes
artifacts in
cross product • Needed to keep
fashion large teams in synch
Defects
• Grouping of
work items
Tasks and • Allows team
Views Diff and growth
as needed Merge

• Reuse is Project • Need to deliver
enabled by Componentization Management differentiating
knowing your Build apps on the
components devices
Management

• Ability to add
functionality to • Increase in
specific number of
products product
• Allows product
variations
specific builds

• Speeds build
process



Quality Management Approach
Requirements-Driven Test

• Each feature (with
all of its variants)

• Core features
of product • Each product (with
line unique variants)

• Product
requirements Defect
to test Identification • Quality progress
coverage per product line,
product and
Quality feature
Reporting
• Product line Metrics
metrics

• Consolidated
Collaborative reports
• Product specific Test Planning
metrics

• Define
product line • Identify unique features, test
test strategy configurations, I/O’s, entry/exit
and planning criteria

• Identify common and
unique test steps



Lifecycle Approach to Product Line Engineering

Features and functions
Requirements
Requirements
engineers

Product generator
Product line
Architects Design models

Development
Development assets
engineers

Quality
Test cases
engineers



BigLever Software

 BigLever Software™ is the leading provider of systems and software product line engineering
framework, tools and services. BigLever's patented Gears™ solution dramatically simplifies
the creation, evolution and maintenance of systems and software for a product line – a
portfolio of similar products or systems with variations in features and functions.
 With Gears, development organizations can reduce costs and bring new product line features
and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic
market windows.
 BigLever Bridge solutions for the IBM Rational toolset include DOORS, Rhapsody, Rational
Quality Manager, Synergy and ClearCase. BigLever and IBM also offer methodology
integrations for Rational Publishing Engine, Focal Point and Rational Team Concert.
 www.biglever.com



IBM BigLever PLE solution: BigLever Gears Software Product Line
(SPL) Lifecycle Framework integrations for the IBM Rational
Solution for Systems and Software Engineering
Improve product line management
IBM Rational Focal Point

Manage requirements diversity
IBM Rational DOORS
Feature-based variation management
and automated production
BigLever Gears SPL Framework
Implement variants with MDD
IBM Rational Rhapsody

Collaborative development
IBM Rational Team Concert

Simplify soft asset management and delivery:
Increase product quality IBM Rational - Team Concert, Synergy,
IBM Rational Quality Manager ClearCase, and BuildForge



Enables Feature-based Consolidation
of ALM, PLM & PLE



Delivering Measurable Benefits

Provide an innovative and pragmatic solution for systems and software product
line engineering, design and delivery.
Increase the scope of product diversity and scale of different products that can
be effectively delivered in a product line.
Boost productivity and efficiency.
Decrease per-product development cost, potentially resulting in higher profit
margins.
Reduce time to market for new and updated products.
Increase agility to react to new opportunities and changing marketplace
conditions.
Improve product quality by reducing defect density and improving risk
management.



Summary
 Complexity can rapidly increase as you
develop variations of your products and
systems

 Maintaining the various systems relationships
manually is very difficult – maybe impossible

 Commitment to OSLC and JAZZ is key

 IBM’s Solution for Systems and Software
Engineering automates the building of
structures and dependency relationships

 The IBM Rational and BigLever Software PLE
Solution provides leading technology, best
practices and the BigLever Gears SPL
Lifecycle Framework

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