Developing the Production Plan Successful product line practice depends on a documented, well-understood, effective set of practices and processes for building products, as well as for building and evolving the architecture and other core assets. It is not enough to simply have an architecture and a set of components that can be used to build the products in the product line. The production plan is this guide. The production plan is the overarching scheme that links these individual processes.
Some organizations maintain a common set of development tools or environments.
The production plan takes these and other considerations into account. The production plan is instantiated each time a product is built. You also need to understand who will be building the products, in effect, the audience for the production plan. Knowing who the audience is will give you a better idea of how to format the production plan. Production plans can range from a detailed process model to a much more informal guidebook.