Product Lifecycle Management and Application Lifecyle Management

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Introduction

The proposal to establish a PLM Workgroup was circulated to community members on 15th Jan 2010

Initial PLM Workgroup conference call to discuss this proposal was held on February 16th 2010

The OSLC PLM workgroup brings people together who have a common interest in defining specifications that enable lifecycle collaboration and integration around ALM in the context of PLM, to inform an existing OSLC specification, or contribute new specifications.

The OSLC PLM workgroup aims to:

• Evaluate applicability of existing OSLC specifications towards use in an ALM/PLM setting
• Contribute towards extension or new OSLC specifications base upon need or ALM/PLM collaborations

and it is envisaged that topics associated with ALM in a PLM context are such as the following for discussion:

1. PLM product or System identities used within the ALM environment such as to name (e.g. identify, classify or associate) activities and artefacts
2. Location of ALM content from a PLM or system contextand/or location of relevant PLM content from an ALM or system context
3. ALM deliveries of product or system content (artefacts) into a PLM setting such as part of a release managed by PLM
4. Flows of plans, requirements, quality info and changes activities and items between ALM and PLM or System context
5. Analytics, reporting from ALM to PLM, from PLM to ALM or combinations inclduing a System context
6. Organisation, role, approvals and authorities affecting ALM in a PLM setting or System context
7. Establishment, association and maintenance of configurations, variants, options and their effectivity

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is proposed as business concerns associated with managing a product over its lifecycle to achieve the desired market and business objectives.Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is proposed as business concerns associated with managing a viable software delivery that constitutes or realises a software application.References to System here is proposed to encompass combinations or arrangements of deliverables or operatring units of all scales whether viewed as Systems or Systems of Systems.

As PLM tends to be cross-discipline, cross-functional and extend to most areas of an organisation's business operations, the proposal here is to consider primarily where an application represents a product for sale and/or distribution, (or where an application may be a component of a software suite or system that represents a product for sale and/or distribution). There are also additional concerns to build out such as where an application is very strongly related to a product but may not constitute it, such as a test application, product configurator or even a PLM or ERP application.

Participation is welcomed from those with an interest or experience of applying OSLC or other industry standards to the ALM/PLM collaboration and integration topics, with a likely initial focus on scenarios and application of existing specs. We aim to enable and build up understanding of the value and application in a wider PLM or System lifecycle setting and hence provide additional input to existing specs then assessing whether additional specs are needed.

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Main meeting minutes:

http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/PLMWorkgroupMainMeetings

Tracked Actions:

http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/PLMWorkgroupMainActions

Meeting plans:

http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/PlmGeneralAdditionalMeetings

March 3rd 11am ET - OSLC walkthrough - based upon introduction to CM and example of usage of CM in wider PLM context

March 16th 11am ET - PLM Workgroup main meting

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