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

Chair	Hugo-Guillermo CHALÉ GÓNGORA (THALES)
Co-chairs	Charlie Krueger (BigLever) Rowland Darbin (General Dynamics)
AFIS PLE WG	Alain Le Put (MALP Conseil)
Work products	Bob Malone (Boeing)
Webinars	Suresh Tirumalai (GE Oil&Gas) Konstantinos Vilaetis (NY AirBrake)
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
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

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Planned Working Sessions at the Next Events

2019 INCOSE International Workshop

Content to be published

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Planned Presentations at the Next Annual

2018 INCOSE International Symposium

• Dates: July 9 - 12, 2018
• Location: Washington, DC - USA

The PLE program of activities at the next IS2018 can be downloaded using the link below.
Waste no more time!

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Other upcoming PLE-related Conferences and Events

2018 Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)

• Dates: Sept. 10-14, 2018
• Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

For other product line related conferences, see the conference list maintained by the PLE IWG.

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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