Ensuring the appropriate organizational
units, with the right staff and resources.
■ Ensuring an appropriate funding model for
the creation and evolution of core assets.
■ Having appropriately trained people.
■ Establishing policies, process definitions,
and a product line operating concept that
defines how the product line development
effort works day-to-day.
■ Planning the organization’s conversion to
the product line paradigm.
■ Planning and managing the product line’s
evolution.
■ Establishing and monitoring the interaction
mechanisms—such as communications,
dependencies, feedback, and risk
management—among product and core
asset development projects.
■ Establishing the organization’s product
line goals, as well as a measurement program
to track progress in meeting them.
■ Planning and managing external interfaces,
particularly with customers and
suppliers.