Utilizing Product Line Engineering

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working smarter, not harder, should be the goal of every organization. Product line engineering makes that possible, and today Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by an expert who knows how to help companies work smarter. Product line engineering expert and VP of Customer Success at BigLever Software Paul Clements shares his insights into the value of product line engineering, the problems it solves, how to adapt it into any process, and which companies are doing the best job of getting it right.   </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What is product line engineering (PLE)? </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">PLE is an architecture that is designed to support multiple products simultaneously and produce greater business gains. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">PLE takes advantage of the similarities of products while also managing their differences. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Successful companies have learned to manage components within a family of products. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">PLE is not a new concept, it has been in practice for centuries. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who practices PLE, and why? </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">PLE is common sense — why do things multiple times if you don’t have to? </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A standard was necessary to normalize competing ideas. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">First and second generations distinguish between feature-based PLE and otherwise. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"