Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications

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ISBN: 9780849326202 | 0849326206
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/16/2010

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This comprehensive volume explains the theory and application of decision support technology to software engineering. It shows how this technology can improve software quality and maximize budgets and staffing so projects are managed effectively, and supplies readers with decision support tools and details how to use these tools for effective software development. With an emphasis on quality assurance and reuse, Decision Support for Software Engineering explains how decision support technology can improve the maintenance of existing systems along with software engineering metrics and models and their application to decision support and software development.

Foreword	p. XI
Acknowledgments	p. XV
Foundations
Overview and Introduction	p. 3
What is Release Planning and Why Do We Care?	p. 3
Misconceptions about Release Planning	p. 4
How the Book is Structured	p. 8
Some Assumptions to Share	p. 10
Who Should Read This Book?	p. 13
Expected Benefits	p. 15
Decisions and How to Make Them	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
Three Product Release Decision Scenarios	p. 18
Classification of Decisions	p. 21
Decision-Making versus Decision Support	p. 23
The Decision-Making Process	p. 24
Evolutionary Problem Solving	p. 28
An Integrated Approach to Decision-Making	p. 31
Features and Their Prioritization	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
Features	p. 34
Feature Elicitation	p. 36
Criteria for Feature Prioritization	p. 37
Selection of Stakeholders	p. 39
Prioritization by Comparison: The Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP	p. 41
Prioritization by Scoring	p. 44
Prioritization Method Multi-Score	p. 47
Voice-of-the-Stakeholder Analysis	p. 48
Methods
Planning for Product Releases: An Overview	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
The Planning Onion	p. 68
Release Planning in a Nutshell	p. 69
Rigorous Release Planning Methods	p. 70
Release Planning in Practice: The Status Quo	p. 78
Modeling for Product Release Planning	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Decision Variables and Horizon of Planning	p. 86
Dependencies between Features	p. 86
Pre-Assignments	p. 89
Effort Constraints	p. 91
Cost Constraints	p. 91
Resource Constraints	p. 91
Risk Constraints	p. 94
Planning Objectives	p. 95
Generation of Qualified Alternative Solutions	p. 100
How All the Modeling Components Come Together	p. 102
Evolve II: A Systematic Method for Planning Product Releases	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Evolutionary Problem Solving for Product Release Planning	p. 106
Evolve II: Description of the Process	p. 109
Comparison with Other Methods	p. 120
Applicability	p. 122
Re-Planning of Product Releases	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Problem Formulation	p. 127
Re-Planning Method H2W*	p. 128
H2W* Process Description	p. 132
Illustrative Case Study	p. 136
Staffing for Product Releases	p. 145
Introduction	p. 145
Background and Related Work	p. 147
Staffing for Maximum Total Release Value	p. 157
Staffing for Minimum Project Duration	p. 160
Staffing for Maximum Competence Match	p. 161
Industrial Case Study	p. 167
Advanced Topics	p. 171
Introduction	p. 171
Effort Estimation for Release Planning	p. 172
Decision Support by Explanation of Results	p. 177
Release Planning in Consideration of Design Constraints	p. 184
The Impact of Uncertainty in Operational Release Planning	p. 189
Tools
Tool Support	p. 201
Introduction	p. 201
Support For Prioritization: The Tool VeryBestChoice^Light	p. 203
Product ReleasePlanning: The ReleasePlanner™ Tool	p. 210
Staffing: The Tool RASORP	p. 221
Applications
Case Study: Product Roadmapping	p. 227
Introduction	p. 227
Preparation for Planning	p. 228
Prioritization of Features by Stakeholders	p. 232
Planning without Tool Support	p. 234
Generation of Optimized Release Plan Alternatives	p. 239
Re-Running the Process	p. 245
Case Study: Staffing for Product Releases	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
Baseline	p. 252
The Impact of Improved Productivity	p. 256
The Impact of Predicted and Unpredicted Absence of Developers	p. 259
The Impact of Unpredicted Change of Effort Estimates	p. 261
The Impact of Adding New Features During Development	p. 261
Decision Support for Hiring	p. 263
Discussion	p. 264
Case Study: Adaptable Project Management	p. 265
Introduction	p. 265
An Adaptable Project Management Approach	p. 266
Case Study	p. 269
Discussion of Results	p. 279
Application Scenarios	p. 283
Introduction	p. 283
Roadmapping for Multiple Products	p. 285
Planning with Consideration of Quality Demands	p. 288
Agile Project Management Following Scrum	p. 292
Planning for Competitiveness of Products	p. 294
Project Portfolio Planning	p. 296
How to Get It Started	p. 299
Introduction	p. 299
Step 1: Characterize and Understand	p. 299
Step 2: Define the Problem and Its Stakeholders	p. 300
Step 3: Define the Process	p. 301
Step 4: Execute the Process	p. 301
Step 5: Analyze the Process and Its Performance	p. 302
Step 6: Package Experience and Results	p. 302
Cost-Benefit Analysis	p. 303
Final Remarks	p. 304
References	p. 305
Index	p. 319
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