Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Computer Science -
Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,8, AKAD University of
Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Tracy (1995, p.
19) emphasises in his book that in the twenty-first century, tomorrow
will be more different from today than in the past. Therefore today's
corporations get to stay innovative, reinvent themselves continuously
and have to design new business. In contrast to that, software mastery
becomes more than ever the key factor for business success (Northrop,
2008, p. 12). In the twenty-first century, software pervades every
sector and has become the bottom line for many organisations. Therefore,
reusability plays a growing role for every business in today's rapid
changing world (Strahringer, 2003, p. 5). Thus, new paradigms in
software engineering are focusing on the reutilisation and
modularisation of software solutions. One innovative and growing concept
since 2003 is software line development which has its origin in the
automotive and fashion industry (Strahringer, 2003, p. 5). The key
benefits of software line development is the covering of a wide field of
application with minimal extra costs by reuse of a common software
platform. In reference to Ebert & Smouts (2003, p. 29) the most
publications in the field of software lines deal with configuration and
change management. Whereas the integration of software line development
into enterprises' product portfolios has been till now widely neglected.
In contrast to that Jeffery & Leliveld (2004) points out that the
failure or success of software lines highly depend in particular on
their level of integration into companies' portfolio system. For this
reason, the major goal of this research is the realisation of an
integrated portfolio management system for software line development.
This covers at first the determination of the role portfolio management
in organisational governance. Thereafter the general element
