Incentive Plan
Creating a reuse incentive plan is critical to the success of asset-based development. There are multiple models that
have been applied. A good treatment of this subject is found in the article by Robert G. Fichman (Boston College)
titled: Incentive Compatibility and Systematic Software Reuse. (Appeared in: Journal of Systems and Software, New York;
Apr 27, 2001; Vol. 57, Iss. 1; pg. 45.)
Reuse Adoption
Reuse adoption is a significant issue for the enterprise. An enterprise can do all the right things for the technical
environment, and have the management support. However, adoption and rollout into the enterprise is where many
enterprises fail with assets. Best practice shows us that for the asset adoption to have a better chance of survival, a
mixed model is required.
This means that the asset program must have top-down management support, and that the rollout of the asset program must
be bottom-up. The reuse program generally requires bottom-up successes where it has been proven by early adopting
projects in the enterprise. This may mean the rollout is slower, but the overall success tends to be greater.
There is less chance of success if the adoption strategy is an enterprise-wide, top-down forced usage model. The
adoption strategy should be aligned closely with the efforts to capture and measure the successes and failures of the
reuse efforts.
The real challenge is to manage organizational and cultural change, and this takes time to be proven and adopted.
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