Product derivation process and agile approaches:exploring the integration potential

Software Product Lines (SPL) and Agile practices have emerged as new paradigms for developing software. Both approaches share common goals; this provides the motivation for exploring the possibilities of integrating these two approaches. However, there has been little research on identifying the opportunities and challenges of such integration. We have been researching the potential of integrating Agile approaches in one of the key SPL process areas, product derivation. In this paper, we identify the similarities and differences between Agile and SPL and propose the idea of introducing Agile practices to improve the product derivation process.