I’ve been invited to give a talk on Software Product Lines at the Open University on 4th October.

Synopsis:

This talk will introduce the Software Product Lines approach – a way of building families of similar-but-different software variants from a set of configurable, reusable assets using a common production method.

Building sets of software variants from reusable assets like this can lead to economies of scope, enabling benefits such as increased productivity, improved quality, reduced time-to-market etc. to be realised. However, the product line approach is not universally applicable, and the talk will describe when you can and when you cannot build such product lines and how to go about it if you do decide it is applicable.

It’s an interesting experience talking to an academic audience – they tend to ask very different questions to a business audience – so I’m excited to see what issues will come up.

If you’re with the OU you can find more details of attending the talk here.