Product Lifecycle Management and
Application Lifecycle Management Integration

Introduction

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 for ALM/PLM collaborations

Certian topics associated with ALM in a PLM context are being exploraed in this workgroup, these are initially called the ALM-PLM Areas of Concern, expanded here

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 are 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.

The PLM Workgroup was inaugurated on February 16th 2010 and has been actively meeting on a regular basis, you'll find the meeting details below. The workgroup meets at least once a month, see below for the planned schedule of meetings

Latest Summary

Working together the OSLC PLM Workgroup has proposed scenarios for consideration and selected an initial focus scenario for exploration. Consult the scenarios link over on the right hand side of this page under Input / Feedback.

The first scenario has been released for feedback and usage on July 30th.

The PLM mailing list is being built up- Please join:

http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-plm_open-services.net

Tracked Actions:

Meeting plans:

Sept 7th 11am Eastern PLM Workgroup meeting

Sept 21st 11am Eastern PLM Workgroup meeting

Meetings held:

The PLM Workgroup has met regulalrly since Feb 16th 2010

You can find the meeting minutes here