Product owner creates a new Product

This scenario is aimed at assisting the clarification and validation the use of the proposed OSLC specifcation by taking the basic case of creating a product

Business Context

Product management owners or systems architect/engineers responsible for product definition need to create a new product, which either is a software product or contains software constituents.

Today it takes too much time and effort to build up and check a unified ALM-PLM product definition that succefully meets process criteria, which may well be changing due to innovation in the products themselves and processses usedto handle them.

Typical improvement goals are to reduce the time to create accepted product definitions, thereby sincrease efficiency, reduce errors and rework.

Scenario entry points

There are multiple potential entry points for product creation, for example

- to make a new product as a member of a product family perhaps a varaint to an existing family member or hosted by a family (e.g. as an accessory)

- to make a new product from defined capabilities or qualities

- to make a new product from an existing product or variant (In many industries this may be 80% of product creation cases)

- to create a product from scratch (In many industries this may be 20% of product creation cases)

In general some combinatrion of the above issued, this is the overall aim of this scenario. The cost of product content over the lifecycle trend to increase re-use.

Scenario Outline

Create a basic product identity

Add product name

Add product unique identifier(may be a temporary or an alias)

Add a formal enterprise product identifier (typically requires approval to allocate a number from the enterprise register

Note: Its is assumed that already this basic product is under version control

Create coding and classification

Add relevant product families

Add organisational ownership and contacts

Add classification terms from enterprise catalog

Add classification or identification tags

Define lifecycle state and control codes

Set initial lifecycle state

Add lifecycle indication codes e.g. prelimary, not for sale

Define and or add lifecycle state processing rules e.g. for transition to next stage

Define product capabilities and qualities

Add capabilities, features, functions or descriptions e.g. from a catalog

Add a reference to some market need or demand that this product is aimed to address

Add variant parameters which will condition the product capabilities e.g. its functions or capacities

Add some variant expressions that define combinations of capabilities such as governed by variant parameters

Associate variant parameters and variant expressions with capabilities, demands or descriptions

Define product compositional structure

Add or define compositional types e.g. bill of materials, system assembly

Add other products as components to compositional structures e.g. products, documents, artefacts

Add other structures e.g. document structures

Define variant processing to compositional structures

Variant processing enables conditional content specification - i.e. Boolean to include, exclude, set the number of items, set dependencies or mutual exclusivity

Add variant expressions at some product family or product compositional or item level

Add variant expressions at some product content level e.g. Assembly, Component

Define variant expressions for re-use independent of product

or some combination

Define approvals

Add or define approval needed requests-overall and sectional

Approve product definitions (partial or overall)

Define product related workflows

Add or define workflows

Associate information with a product (can be associated with any of the above product definition

Add or define product information associations

Define events and event handling

Add or define events

Add or define subscriptions to events

Add or define actions e.g. notifications associated with subscriptions to events

Scenario process support note

The above list of activities and results are executed variously in sequences, combinations and revisited multiple times during the life of a product definition.

For add/define include remove, change etc.