Exploring Communities of Practice for Product Family Engineering

Abstract

Abstract. Product Family Engineering is an approach to software engineering that seeks to reduce the global effort in producing multiple software products by actively governing the reuse of assets between the family members. However, Product Family Engineering is a highly knowledge intensive activity putting stringent demands careful planning and management in the organization. This paper presents a study proposal that will examine the effects of knowledge brokering among Communities of Practice as a means to assist this activity.