From Agile Software Product Line Engineering Towards Software Ecosystems

....................................................................................................................... i Preface......................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... iii Contents ..................................................................................................................... iv List of Figures........................................................................................................... vii List of Tables ........................................................................................................... viii Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ ix 1 Introduction.......................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Problem Outline 3 1.2 Research Context 4 1.3 Research Questions 4 1.4 Research Design 6 1.5 Publications 7 1.6 Contributions 9 1.7 Thesis Structure 13 2 Background ........................................................................................................ 15 2.1 State of the art and research 15 2.1.1 Software product line engineering......................................................... 15 2.1.2 Agile software development .................................................................. 18 2.1.3 Concepts combined: Agile software product line engineering.............. 20 2.1.4 Software Ecosystems ............................................................................. 23 2.1.5 Organizational change ........................................................................... 26 2.2 The case 29 2.2.1 Organization........................................................................................... 29 2.2.2 Product line ............................................................................................ 31 2.2.3 Processes ................................................................................................ 33 2.2.4 A retrospective of the development of the organization........................ 36