Combined variability management of business processes and software architectures

Nowadays, organizations are faced with the challenge of surviving in a highly flexible and competitive market. Especially the domain of Internet of Things is affected by short product cycles and high pricing pressure. Business Process oriented organizations have proven to perform better regarding highly flexible markets and fast production cycles. However, especially industries focused on low cost IoT systems are facing big problems if the according business processes are not aligned with the business processes. Consequently, a lot of development effort is spent for features which are never addressed by any business goal. With this work, we propose to use a combined variability management in order to efficiently address product variability on the organizational level as well as on the technical level.