Hi Reaney,
<<We are in the process of setting off on a number of projects that will all be "interrelated" at the component level build a round a common physical architecture current legacy silo systems. The premise to develop a logical common data structure for all information with company>> A Brief History Of Software Reuse: 1960s - subroutines, 1970s modules, 1980s objects, 1990s components, millennium product lines. You need to move your development organization away from the mentality of developing applications one-at-a-time. Everyone needs to be thinking in terms of developing a product line (a set of products that together address a particular market segment or fulfill a particular mission). Look for commonalities and variabilities between products in the product line. The payoff point should occur after the second or third product. After that you are developing new products from core (common) assets. This will give your organization a great advantage over the competition. Each product in the product line shares core assets (this is not just sharing code). One core asset is the Business Plan. You need this in order to sell the idea, and to evaluate the success of your product line. You will also need a marketing plan to know what features your product line will support. Use cases will help you define these features. The short version of this is that a governance model for component reuse needs to be in place before the promise of reuse can be realized. You are in luck, since the SEI has done tremendous work for you in this area. This will get you started: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/framework.html and you really should read this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201703327/ref=pd_sim_books/102-97948 79-8944935 Good Luck! -Richard -----Original Message----- From: Reaney Ramsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 19, 2002 4:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (ROSE) exchanging element of one model with another Hi, We are in the process of setting off on a number of projects that will all be "interrelated" at the component level build a round a common physical architecture current legacy silo systems. The premise to develop a logical common data structure for all information with company A project will call on two major set of resources; a corporate set of components; and a COTS set of components resulting in a third set of product to be built. Now, to ensure that opportunities for ensuring that all projects are singing of the same set of components models they need to understand and contain corporate components as an example but they must be copied (shared) and not rewritten (danger of error) into the project specific models. The best would be that change within the corporate model is reflected out into all models that utilise corporate components. At the end of a project the developed components as returned to the corporate model for future utilisation. Has anyone a notion as to a solution to this? This might be aiming for nirvana but project exist within projects and models need to be kept to a manageable size. 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