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.

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

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)

Current Activities / Work Product Leaders

Work Product	Lead
ISO 26580 Standard -Methods and Tools for the Feature-Based Approach to Systems and Software Product Line Engineering	Charlie Krueger (BigLever)
PLE Primer	Paul Clements (BigLever)
INSIGHT Magazine June 2019 Issue : "Product Line Engineering"	Matthew Hause (PTC)
INSIGHT Magazine June/July 2020 Issue: "System Security in Product Line Engineering"	Beth Wilson
INCOSE SEBoK Updates	Drew Stovall (BigLever) Matthew Hause (PTC)

Planned Working Sessions at the Next Events

INCOSE International Workshop 2019

Dates: January 26-29, 2019
Location: Torrance, California - USA

Planned Presentations at the Next Annual

INCOSE International Symposium 2019

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

The PLE program of activities for IS2019 is now available!

As for previous editions of the International Symposium, an exciting program has been prepared this year: ground braking papers and state-of-the-art tutorials on PLE and Systems Engineering, plus the warm and welcoming environment of the INCOSE community are waiting for you.
You can dowload the PLE program here.

Join us in Orlando!

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

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

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