Welcome to the Product Line Engineering International Working Group!

Mission & Objectives

Mission

• Promote PLE (Product Line Engineering) and related SE (Systems Engineering) best practices
• Coordinate activities around PLE at INCOSE level and share results

Objectives

• Help our members acquire Know‐How:

• Compare to the State‐of‐Art
• Share concerns, experiences, good practices, and traps to avoid

• Provide guidelines to set up and evolve PLE in organizations

Scope

• All types of Systems, Markets, & Organizations
• All the SE Processes (needs, requirements, architecture, integration and tests, …)
• All maturity levels of PLE, from opportunistic to completely Integrated and anticipated strategies

Our group charter is available online here.​​

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Leadership

Co-chairs	Hugo-Guillermo CHALÉ GÓNGORA (Thales), Rowland Darbin (General Dynamics)
Work products	Bob Malone (Boeing), Drew Stovall (BigLever)
Outreach	Paul Clements (BigLever)
ISO committee representative	Charlie Krueger (BigLever)
INCOSE Liaisons	Beth Wilson (Raytheon) – System Security and Systems-of-systems Matthew Hause (PTC) – Transport Matthew Hause (PTC) / Arnaud Durantin (3DS) – MBSE Bill Bolander (IBM) – Automotive Tracy Scott-Parry (UTC) / Arnaud Durantin (3DS) – Requirements TBD – Tool interoperability H.G. Chalé (THALES) / Raul Mazo (UP1-Sorbonne) – Critical Infrastructure RP, Agile SE C. Krueger (BigLever) / H.G. Chalé G (THALES) – MBSE Patterns Anil Prasad (Medtronic plc) – Healthcare Drew Stovall (BigLever) – Configuration Management
Events	tbd
IT & Services	H.G. Chalé G (THALES) acting

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Working Group Products

• PLE Handbook
  • English version issued! available at: 
    • Cepadues page for English version of handbook
    • Google Play store link
  • French version available at:
    • Cepadues page for French version of handbook
• PLE webinar recordings & material
  • Available to INCOSE members only (sign into your account and then search the INCOSE Products Store, https://connect.incose.org/products/default.aspx)
• List of PLE-related conferences world-wide
  • Document with list of PLE-related conferences (Word format)
  • Page with list of PLE-related conferences (page format; work in progress)

Note: SE Handbook V4 released during IS2015

Current Activities / Work Product Leaders

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Planned Working Sessions at the Next Events

INCOSE International Symposium 2019

• Dates: July 20-25, 2019
• Location: Orlando, Florida - USA

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Planned Presentations at the Next Annual

INCOSE International Symposium 2019

• Dates: July 20-25, 2019
• Location: Orlando, Florida - USA

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PLE Conferences and Events

Conferences focused on product families and variability subjects

SPLC 2019 : 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

• Dates: Sept. 9-13, 2019
• Location: Paris, France

VAMOS 2019 : 13th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems

• Dates: February 6-8, 2019
• Location: Leuven, Belgium

Smart Variant.Con

• Dates: June 24-25, 2019
• Location: Berlin, Germany

MCP-CE : World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation

• Dates:
• Location:

CONFWS 19 : Workshop on Configuration

• Dates:
• Location: Hamburg, Germany

IWCT 2019 : 8th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing

• Dates: April 23, 2019
• Location: Xian, China

General engineering conferences encompassing product family related subjects

ICED 19 : 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design

• Dates: August 5-8, 2019
• Location: Delft, The Netherlands

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How To Participate

Our PLE group is growing fast. We invite you to join us!

Membership in the PLE IWG is open to any INCOSE member. To join the group:

• Log into your INCOSE account
• Go to your Profile Page, and scroll to the bottom left section titled "My Committees and Working Groups"
• Click the link for "Browse / Join a Working Group"
• Find the Product Lines group and click on View to see roster; the Join option is at the bottom of the page

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Shared working documents, meeting minutes and presentation material are available in our CONNECT page.
Visit us at https://connect.incose.org/WorkingGroups/ProductLines/Pages/Home.aspx