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Software product line engineering has proven successful in several areas where the products are driven or even dominated by software systems. Yet, this promising approach has not spread across all industries that are software driven. For example, in the insurance industry, product line engineering can be adopted to provide standard software products that explicitly account for variability. However, the typical transformation strategies do not fit to the current state of the practice in software development for the insurance industry. The major obstacles are the current structure of the software development practice, the spread of domain knowledge, the speed of innovation, and the general risks, associated with adopting disruptive technologies.
The extended pilot project is a transition strategy, which avoids these problems. A software vendor can use this strategy to introduce product line engineering as the base for its software product business. The core of this approach is a pilot project that involves several insurance companies as charter clients. The goal of the project is to develop the platform for a product line and to derive a first software product for one of the charter clients at the same time. After the completion of the project, the remaining charter clients and further customers derive their own individual software systems.
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Bröckers, A. (2018). Variability in Standard Software Products. In: Gruhn, V., Striemer, R. (eds) The Essence of Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73897-0_6
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