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Sjaak Brinkkemper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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competition and collaboration in requirements engineering a case study of an emerging software ecosystem
2014Co-Authors: George Valenca, Slinger Jansen, Carina Alves, Virginia Heimann, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Increasingly, small to medium software producing organisations are working together in collaboration networks to supply complex compositions of their Products and services to customers. In this paper, we present a case study of two software companies that are evolving their partnership towards the creation of a software ecosystem. We investigate the impacts of their tightening partnership on software Product Management, with a focus on requirements engineering practices. We observe that the requirements definition and negotiation processes are directly affected by their fluid collaborative and competitive relationships. Power disputes, volatile roles and mismatches in release synchronisation are also aspects observed in the studied software ecosystem. We extract several observations from the case study that support small to medium software firms in making decisions within their software ecosystem.
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software Product Management an industry evaluation
2014Co-Authors: Christof Ebert, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Product Management is a key success factor for software Products as it spans the entire life-cycle and thus ensures both a technical and business perspective. With its many interfaces to various business processes and stakeholders across the life-cycle, it is a primary driver for requirements engineering in its focus on value-orientation and consistency across releases. This article provides an overview on Product Management in software and IT. It summarizes experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a Product manager. In order to get a profound industry overview we performed a field study with interviews and concrete insight across fifteen different organizations world-wide on the role of the Product manager and its success factors. As a technical solution we present four success factors identified from the research and show how they address the challenges we identified in practice. The novel part of this research and technical study is the industry survey and evaluation of resulting solution proposals. We found that with increasing institutionalization of a consistent and empowered Product Management role, the success rate of projects in terms of schedule predictability, quality and project duration improves.
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the agile requirements refinery applying scrum principles to software Product Management
2011Co-Authors: Kevin Vlaanderen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Slinger Jansen, Erik JaspersAbstract:Context: Although agile software development methods such as SCRUM and DSDM are gaining popularity, the consequences of applying agile principles to software Product Management have received little attention until now. Objective: In this paper, this gap is filled by the introduction of a method for the application of SCRUM principles to software Product Management. Method: A case study research approach is employed to describe and evaluate this method. Results: This has resulted in the 'agile requirements refinery', an extension to the SCRUM process that enables Product managers to cope with complex requirements in an agile development environment. A case study is presented to illustrate how agile methods can be applied to software Product Management. Conclusions: The experiences of the case study company are provided as a set of lessons learned that will help others to apply agile principles to their software Product Management process.
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a framework for process improvement in software Product Management
2010Co-Authors: Willem Bekkers, Inge Van De Weerd, Marco Spruit, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:This paper presents a comprehensive overview of all the important areas within Software Product Management (SPM). The overview has been created and validated in collaboration with many experts from practice and the scientific community. It provides a list of 68 capabilities a Product software organization should implement to reach a full grown SPM maturity. The overview consists of the SPM Competence Model that shows the areas of importance to SPM, and the SPM Maturity Matrix that lists all important activities within those areas in a best practice implementation order. SPM organizations can use this matrix to map and improve their SPM practices incrementally.
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cost and benefit analysis of quality requirements in competitive software Product Management a case study on the quper model
2010Co-Authors: Richard Berntsson Svensson, Björn Regnell, Yuri Sprockel, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:In market-driven Product development, it is important that the software Product is released to the market at the right time, and offers higher quality than the competitors. In release planning, the allocation of development effort in investments into Product enhancements, functions are competing with quality requirements for limited resources. In addition, it is important to find the right balance between competing quality requirements. In this paper, we present an industrial evaluation of the benefit and cost views in the QUality PERformance (QUPER) model. The results indicate that the model is relevant in the release planning process, and that the combination of the benefit and cost views provides a clear picture of the current market situation.
Inge Van De Weerd - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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understanding users behavior with software operation data mining
2014Co-Authors: Stella Pachidi, Marco Spruit, Inge Van De WeerdAbstract:Software usage concerns knowledge about how end-users use the software in the field, and how the software itself responds to their actions. In this paper, we present the Usage Mining Method to guide the analysis of data collected during software operation, in order to extract knowledge about how a software Product is used by the end-users. Our method suggests three analysis tasks which employ data mining techniques for extracting usage knowledge from software operation data: users profiling, clickstream analysis and classification analysis. The Usage Mining Method was evaluated through a prototype that was executed in the case of Exact Online, the main online financial Management application in the Netherlands. The evaluation confirmed the supportive role of the Usage Mining Method in software Product Management and development processes, as well as the applicability of the suggested data mining algorithms to carry out the usage analysis tasks.
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a framework for process improvement in software Product Management
2010Co-Authors: Willem Bekkers, Inge Van De Weerd, Marco Spruit, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:This paper presents a comprehensive overview of all the important areas within Software Product Management (SPM). The overview has been created and validated in collaboration with many experts from practice and the scientific community. It provides a list of 68 capabilities a Product software organization should implement to reach a full grown SPM maturity. The overview consists of the SPM Competence Model that shows the areas of importance to SPM, and the SPM Maturity Matrix that lists all important activities within those areas in a best practice implementation order. SPM organizations can use this matrix to map and improve their SPM practices incrementally.
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The design of focus area maturity models
2010Co-Authors: Marlies Van Steenbergen, R Bos, Inge Van De Weerd, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Willem BekkersAbstract:Maturity models are a well-known instrument to support the improvement of functional domains in IS. like software development or testing While maturity models may share a common structure, they have to be developed anew for each functional domain Focus area maturity models are. distinguished from fixed-level maturity models, like CMM, in that they are especially suited to the incremental improvement of functional domains In this paper we present a generic method for developing focus area maturity models based on both extensive industrial experience and scientific investigation In doing so. we show two examples of focus area maturity models, one for enterprise architecture and one for software Product Management. We used a design science research process to develop the method presented
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towards a reference framework for software Product Management
2006Co-Authors: Inge Van De Weerd, Richard Nieuwenhuis, Johan Versendaal, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Lex BijlsmaAbstract:In the last decade, software Product Management has received much practical attention, though research in this area is still scattered. In this paper, we present a reference framework for software Product Management, in which the key process areas, namely portfolio Management, Product roadmapping, release planning and requirements Management, are identified, as well as the stakeholders and their relations. With this reference framework, we provide a structure for a body of knowledge for software Product Management.
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a Product software knowledge infrastructure for situational capability maturation vision and case studies in Product Management
2006Co-Authors: Inge Van De Weerd, Johan Versendaal, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Product software companies face the challenge of shipping new releases of their software Products in time, within budget, with the right quality, and for a good price. As we encountered many performance failures in this respect, we started to build a Product software knowledge infrastructure, which, when fully materialized, can help to increase the maturity of a company’s processes. The infrastructure leverages earlier research on situational method engineering and incorporates the maturity concept. Many Product software companies have identified Product Management as a major function to deal with matters of release and requirements Management. Therefore the infrastructure focuses particularly on these processes. In building the infrastructure we performed case studies at two companies. We found that Product Management processes change over time, and have become more mature. As such the study of evolution of Product Management processes is a promising step in building the full Product software knowledge infrastructure.
Georg Herzwurm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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19th international working conference on requirements engineering foundation for software quality refsq 2013 proceedings of the refsq 2013 workshops creare iwspm and reprico the refsq 2013 empirical track empirical live experiment and empirical research fair the refsq 2013 doctoral symposium and the refsq 2013 poster session
2013Co-Authors: Richard Berntsson Svensson, Georg Herzwurm, Daniel M Berry, Maya Daneva, Joerg Doerr, Sergio Espana, Andrea Herrmann, Anne Hoffmann, Raul Mazo Pena, Andreas L OpdahlAbstract:This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the following events which were held during the Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ) conference 2013 in Essen, Germany. Creativity in Requirements Engineering (CreaRE), International Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and Communication (RePriCo), International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM), Alive Empirical Study, Online Questionnaires, Empirical Research Fair, Doctoral Symposium, Poster Session.
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Product Management for software Product lines an unsolved problem
2006Co-Authors: Andreas Helferich, Klaus Schmid, Georg HerzwurmAbstract:The goal of this article is to call attention to an area that is yet not sufficiently researched: Product Management for software Product lines (SPLs). Many companies developing standardized software Products have adopted Product Management as a function that coordinates research and development, marketing, sales, and software development. Even though this function coordinates all of these areas, it is traditionally mainly a marketing function and often organized as part of the marketing department. This may be sufficient for "normal" software Products, but not in a SPL context, as we will discuss here.
Lex Bijlsma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards a reference framework for software Product Management
2006Co-Authors: Inge Van De Weerd, Richard Nieuwenhuis, Johan Versendaal, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Lex BijlsmaAbstract:In the last decade, software Product Management has received much practical attention, though research in this area is still scattered. In this paper, we present a reference framework for software Product Management, in which the key process areas, namely portfolio Management, Product roadmapping, release planning and requirements Management, are identified, as well as the stakeholders and their relations. With this reference framework, we provide a structure for a body of knowledge for software Product Management.
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On the Creation of a Reference Framework for Software Product Management: Validation and Tool Support
2006Co-Authors: Inge Van De Weerd, Richard Nieuwenhuis, Johan Versendaal, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Lex BijlsmaAbstract:Software Product Management does not get as much attention in scientific research as it should have, compared to the high value Product software companies ascribe to it. In this paper, we give a status overview of the current software Product Management domain by performing a literature study and field studies with Product managers. Based on these, we are able to present a reference framework for software Product Management, in which the key process areas, stakeholders and their relations are modeled. To validate the reference framework, we perform a case study in which we analyze the stakeholder communication concerning the conception, development and launching of a new Product at a major software vendor. Finally, we propose the Software Product Management Workbench for operational support for Product managers in Product software companies.
Augusto Q Novais - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an optimization model for the design of a capacitated multi Product reverse logistics network with uncertainty
2007Co-Authors: Maria Isabel Gomes Salema, Ana Paula Barbosapovoa, Augusto Q NovaisAbstract:In this work the design of a reverse distribution network is studied. Most of the proposed models on the subject are case based and, for that reason, they lack generality. In this paper we try to overcome this limitation and a generalized model is proposed. It contemplates the design of a generic reverse logistics network where capacity limits, multi-Product Management and uncertainty on Product demands and returns are considered. A mixed integer formulation is developed which is solved using standard B&B techniques. The model is applied to an illustrative case.
