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Developing a product family (architecture) means making early investments. The product family architecture roadmap has to be considered in a business context: how to optimize the expected business value? Estimating the business value of (architectural) investments is a key step. This paper proposes an extension to existing value estimating approaches by combining an NPV-based approach with strategic scenarios to deal with uncertainty and expectations about the future.
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Wesselius, J.H. (2005). Modeling Architectural Value: Cash Flow, Time and Uncertainty. In: Obbink, H., Pohl, K. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554844_10
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