Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780849326202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 339 str.

Gunther Ruhe

Opis

Business success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features. You must correctly analyze the needs of the customer and match these needs with your resources to not only produce a product and but also deliver it in a timely manner. An in-depth understanding of systematic release planning can put you on this path. Authored by renowned expert Gunther Ruhe, Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications presents methods and tools to apply sound planning to product development and product management. The book covers the different aspects of supporting product release decisions ranging from foundations to methods, tools, and applications. Equal parts art and science, the actual decision-making is described as a process of combining rigorous methods with the intuition and experience of human experts. Ruhe provides a guided tour through the methodology and use of release planning, starting with technology and market needs and proceeding to product planning and finally to development projects. He studies three fundamental classes of problems: prioritization of features, product release planning on a strategic level (roadmapping), and release planning on an operational level (staffing). Presenting and discussing tool support for all the methods covered, the author supplies case studies that underpin the methodologies with practical examples. He also supplies trial accounts (read only) for the two most important decision tools for prioritization and product release planning. The author freely admits that the techniques presented are not supposed to be the ultimate truth, but a direction to go to support human decision-making, to better understand the rational of the decisions made, and to grow in the capability of mastering the whole planning process. About the Author: Gunther Ruhe holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at University of Calgary. His main results and publications are in software engineering decision support, product release planning, project management, as well as measurement, simulation, optimization and empirical research for software-based systems. From 1996 until 2001 he was deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has comprehensive experience in industry collaboration projects and is the Founder and CEO of Expert Decisions Inc. Dr. Ruhe is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and the German Computer Society GI."

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 staff productivity so projects are managed effectively. It 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 improving the maintenance of existing systems, along with metrics and models and their application to decision support for software development.

Spis treści

Introduction. Software Engineering Decision Support Systems. Fundamentals of Decision Theory. Enabling Techniques. Applications. Tool Support. Conclusions and Outlook.

O autorze

Guenther Ruhe (University of Calgary , Alberta, Canada)