The Dependency Management Problem
Re-use of core competencies implies dependencies
- Every time we made a business decision to re-use technology, we instantiated a dependency,
- But we didn’t track them
Complexity rose as new core competencies were acquired and re-use increased
- 400 + software products
- 10 supported releases
- Unknown number of dependencies
Engineering QFD analysis
- Dependency management and standard processes were top issues!
Cost to the business is time to market