Software Factories and Product lines are important concepts in software engineering for improving productivity and quality. This page covers the resources and infromation available around Software Factories.

Simple introductions to software product lines and factories

http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/community/newsletter/default.aspx#Contemplate3

http://weblogs.asp.net/alan_cameron_wills/archive/2004/04/13/112431.aspx

Sites with software product line and factory information

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/programs/pls/pl_program.html

http://www.softwareproductlines.com/

http://www.softwarefactories.com/

Software product line and factory book list

http://www.softwareproductlines.com/resources/books.html

Software product line and factory book abstracts

http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=25290

http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0201775956

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471202843.html

Software product line Wiki

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SoftwareProductLine

Software product line Conference Proceedings

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SPLC2004/previous_conf.html

Software product line Events

http://www.biglever.com/split2004/

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SPLC2004/

Software product line Blogs

http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short

http://weblogs.asp.net/Alan_Cameron_Wills

http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/