Roles in PLE

Product Line Engineering (PLE) comes with its own specific roles. To establish a holistic variant management, almost all stakeholders across your product lines will be involved, from business analysts to requirements engineers to software developers to QA engineers etc. The stakeholders participate in different PLE activities, which are divided into 5 PLE-specific roles. The graphic below illustrates in which phases of the PLE activities the specific roles are getting involved.

Product Portfolio Manager

Product Portfolio Manager

Works on optimizing the overall product portfolio.

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Product Line Engineer

Product Line Engineer

Works on creating features/feature models and maintaining them.

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Domain Assets Engineer

Domain Assets Engineer

Works on developing and managing the product line assets and the variability information in them.

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Configurator

Configurator

Works on configuring variants based on the requirements from stakeholders.

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