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Product release planning : methods, tools and applications /

Defines release planning, highlights its importance, and dispels misconceptions about it; Presents in-depth modeling options related to business, resource, risk, and technological constraints; Provides a highly flexible, customizable method for conducting systematic release planning called EVOLVE II...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruhe, Günther
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton : Auerbach Publications, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foundations ; Overview and Introduction; What is Release Planning and Why Do We Care?; Misconceptions about Release Planning; How the Book is Structured; Some Assumptions to Share; Who Should Read This Book?; Expected Benefits; ; Decisions and How to Make Them ; Introduction; Three Product Release Decision Scenarios Classification of Decisions; Decision-making versus Decision Support; The Decision-Making Process; Evolutionary Problem Solving; An Integrated Approach to Decision-Making; ; Features and Their Prioritization ; Introduction; Features; Feature Elicitation; Criteria for Feature Prioritization; Selection of Stakeholders; Prioritization by Comparison: The Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP; Prioritization by Scoring; Prioritization Method Multi-Score; Voice-Of-The-Stakeholder Analysis; ; METHODS; Planning for Product.
  • Releases: An Overview ; Introduction; The Planning Onion; Release Planning in a Nutshell; Rigorous Release Planning Methods; Release Planning in Practice: The Status Quo; ; Modeling for Product Release Planning ; Introduction; Decision Variables and Horizon of Planning; Dependencies Between Features; Pre-Assignments; Effort Constraints; Cost Constraints; Resource Constraints; Risk Constraints; Planning Objectives; Generation of Qualified Alternative Solutions; How all the Modeling Components Come Together ; EVOLVE II: A Systematic Method for Planning Product Releases ; Introduction; Evolutionary Problem Solving for Product Release Planning; EVOLVE II: Description of the Process; Comparison with Other Methods; Applicability; ; Re-Planning of Product Releases ; Introduction; Problem Formulation; Re-planning Method H2W*; H2W* Process Description; Illustrative.
  • Case Study; ; Staffing for Product Releases; Introduction; Background and Related Work; Staffing for Maximum Total Release Value; Staffing for Minimum Project Duration; Staffing for Maximum Competence Match; Industrial Case Study; ; Advanced Topics; Introduction; Effort Estimation for Release Planning; Decision Support by Explanation of Results; Release Planning in Consideration of Design Constraints; The Impact of Uncertainty in Operational Release Planning; ; TOOLS ; Tool Support ; Introduction; Support For Prioritization: The Tool VeryBestChoicelight; Product Release Planning: The ReleasePlannerTM Tool; Staffing: The Tool RASORP; ; APPLICATIONS; Case Study: Product Roadmapping; Introduction; Preparation for Planning; Prioritization of Features by Stakeholders Planning without Tool Support; Generation of Optimized.
  • Release Plan Alternatives; Re-running the Process; ; Case Study: Staffing for Product Releases ; Introduction; Baseline; The Impact of Improved Productivity; The Impact of Predicted and Unpredicted Absence of Developers; The Impact of Unpredicted Change of Effort Estimates; Impact of Adding a New Feature During Release Development; Decision Support for Hiring; Discussion; ; Case Study: Adaptable Project Management ; Introduction; An Adaptable Project Management Approach; Case Study; Discussion of Results; ; Application Scenarios; Introduction; Roadmapping for Multiple Products; Release Planning with Consideration of Quality Demands; Agile Project Management Following Scrum; Planning for Competitiveness of Products; Project Portfolio Planning; ; How To Get It Started; Introduction; Step 1: Characterize and Understand; Step 2: Define the Problem and Its.
  • Stakeholders; Step 3: Define the Process; Step 4: Execute the Process; Step 5: Analyze the Process and Its Performance; Step 6: Package Experience and Results; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Final Remarks; REFERENCES; INDEX.