Welcome to the Practices for Strategic Reuse Website!

This website includes the practices and the main workflows in support of Strategic Reuse.

It also includes tool configuration assets and instructions. See Tools Setup and Configuration for more information.

•   Getting Started

Roles

Define Product Variant

Adoption Workflow

Strategic reuse - don’t reinvent the wheel - is the practice of design planning and execution such that intellectual capital is leveraged as much as possible throughout the product development lifecycle; to increase design efficiencies, engineer product lines, and tame complexity.

Strategic reuse helps you gain efficiencies across the entire product development lifecycle. TheIBM® Rational® solution for systems and software engineering − the SSE platform − facilitates strategic reuse in large-scale product line development. This can be accomplished by reusing components, applying proper change management across different variants, and leveraging automation machinery to control reuse and establish a robust variant control process.  

There are three non-exclusive levels for strategic reuse, as explained in the Strategic reuse and product line engineering article. The focus of this set of practices is on Level 1 (multi-stream) which provides the core mechanism to manage product variants across streams.