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Product Line Engineering
A Product Line is a group of closely related products that are variants of each other. A product is formed from a specific configuration of a common base of components. Each component used in a product has associated artifacts, like requirements specifications, designs, software, test plans, and more. Artifacts, like the products they describe, have versions and variants.
 
Products, Components, and Artifacts and their versions are developed in a modifiable configuration called a stream. Releases or milestones are persisted as uneditable or frozen in configurations called baselines. Products are formed as global configurations by combining streams or baselines of components.
Product line engineering adds configuration management to enable System Engineering teams to effectively work on changes for a given product variant.
Product Line Engineering
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Product Line Engineering Personas

The PLE scenario is an variant of the classic Automated Meter Reader sample used in the Rational Systems Engineering products. For PLE the scenario has been expanded to describe how JK Meters Corp is developing a product line of automated meter reader products with manual, mobile and grid variants across markets in US, EU and UK.

Designs

UX Design for the Global Configuration Switcher

The Configuration Management menu is the focal point for configuration management operations for practitioners. The menu is designed to be available in the Requirement Management, Quality Management and Design Management projects and enables practitioners like System Engineers and Testers to choose the Global Configuration context.

Product Line Engineering Design

The IBM continuous engineering solution is a set of engineering and development tools that help systems engineers, application developers, and embedded developers work together to create product lines of smart and connected products.

Automated Meter Reader Scenario

The PLE scenario is a variant of the classic Automated Meter Reader sample used in the Rational Systems Engineering products. The PLE the scenario has been expanded to describe how JK Meters Corp is developing a product line of automated meter reader products with manual, mobile and grid variants across markets in US, EU and UK.

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