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Product release planning [electronic resource] : methods, tools, and applications / author, Günther Ruhe

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Ruhe, Günther
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Boca Raton : Auerbach Publications, 2010.
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339 pages
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Machine generated contents note: pt. A FOUNDATIONS -- ch. 1 Overview and Introduction -- 1.1.What is Release Planning and Why Do We Care? -- 1.2.Misconceptions about Release Planning -- 1.3.How the Book is Structured -- 1.4.Some Assumptions to Share -- 1.5.Who Should Read This Book? -- 1.6.Expected Benefits -- ch. 2 Decisions and How to Make Them -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Three Product Release Decision Scenarios -- 2.3.Classification of Decisions -- 2.4.Decision-Making versus Decision Support -- 2.5.The Decision-Making Process -- 2.6.Evolutionary Problem Solving -- 2.7.An Integrated Approach to Decision-Making -- ch. 3 Features and Their Prioritization -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Features -- 3.3.Feature Elicitation -- 3.4.Criteria for Feature Prioritization -- 3.5.Selection of Stakeholders -- 3.6.Prioritization by Comparison: The Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP -- 3.7.Prioritization by Scoring -- 3.8.Prioritization Method Multi-Score -- 3.9.Voice-of-the-Stakeholder Analysis -- pt. B METHODS -- ch. 4 Planning for Product Releases: An Overview -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.The Planning Onion -- 4.3.Release Planning in a Nutshell -- 4.4.Rigorous Release Planning Methods -- 4.5.Release Planning in Practice: The Status Quo -- ch. 5 Modeling for Product Release Planning -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Decision Variables and Horizon of Planning -- 5.3.Dependencies between Features -- 5.4.Pre-Assignments -- 5.5.Effort Constraints -- 5.6.Cost Constraints -- 5.7.Resource Constraints -- 5.8.Risk Constraints -- 5.9.Planning Objectives -- 5.10.Generation of Qualified Alternative Solutions -- 5.11.How All the Modeling Components Come Together -- ch. 6 Evolve II: A Systematic Method for Planning Product Releases -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Evolutionary Problem Solving for Product Release Planning -- 6.3.EVOLVE II: Description of the Process -- 6.4.Comparison with Other Methods -- 6.5.Applicability -- ch. 7 Re-Planning of Product Releases -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Problem Formulation -- 7.3.Re-Planning Method H2W -- 7.4.H2W Process Description -- 7.5.Illustrative Case Study -- ch. 8 Staffing for Product Releases -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Background and Related Work -- 8.3.Staffing for Maximum Total Release Value -- 8.4.Staffing for Minimum Project Duration -- 8.5.Staffing for Maximum Competence Match -- 8.6.Industrial Case Study -- ch. 9 Advanced Topics -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Effort Estimation for Release Planning -- 9.3.Decision Support by Explanation of Results -- 9.4.Release Planning in Consideration of Design Constraints -- 9.5.The Impact of Uncertainty in Operational Release Planning -- pt. C TOOLS -- ch. 10 Tool Support -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.Support For Prioritization: The Tool VeryBestChoice Light -- 10.3.Product Release Planning: The ReleasePlanner[™] Tool -- 10.4.Staffing: The Tool RASORP -- pt. D APPLICATIONS -- ch. 11 Case Study: Product Roadmapping -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Preparation for Planning -- 11.3.Prioritization of Features by Stakeholders -- 11.4.Planning without Tool Support -- 11.5.Generation of Optimized Release Plan Alternatives -- 11.6.Re-Running the Process -- ch. 12 Case Study: Staffing for Product Releases -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Baseline -- 12.3.The Impact of Improved Productivity -- 12.4.The Impact of Predicted and Unpredicted Absence of Developers -- 12.5.The Impact of Unpredicted Change of Effort Estimates -- 12.6.The Impact of Adding New Features During Development -- 12.7.Decision Support for Hiring -- 12.8.Discussion -- ch. 13 Case Study: Adaptable Project Management -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.An Adaptable Project Management Approach -- 13.3.Case Study -- 13.4.Discussion of Results -- ch. 14 Application Scenarios -- 14.1.Introduction -- 14.2.Roadmapping for Multiple Products -- 14.3.Planning with Consideration of Quality Demands -- 14.4.Agile Project Management Following Scrum -- 14.5.Planning for Competitiveness of Products -- 14.6.Project Portfolio Planning -- ch. 15 How to Get It Started -- 15.1.Introduction -- 15.2.Step 1: Characterize and Understand -- 15.3.Step 2: Define the Problem and Its Stakeholders -- 15.4.Step 3: Define the Process -- 15.5.Step 4: Execute the Process -- 15.6.Step 5: Analyze the Process and Its Performance -- 15.7.Step 6: Package Experience and Results -- 15.8.Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 15.9.Final Remarks.
Summary
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 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 the 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, release planning on a strategic level (road mapping) 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 rationale of the decisions made and to grow in the capability of mastering the whole planning process. --Book Jacket.
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9781420004113 (ebook : PDF)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also available in print edition.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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