The How? When? and What? for the Process of Re-planning for Product Releases

  • Authors:

  • Anas Jadallah;Ahmed Al-Emran;Mahmoud Moussavi;Guenther Ruhe

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary,;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary,;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary,;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, and Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, and Expert Decisions Inc, Calgary,

  • Venue:
  • ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Volatility of features and dynamic change in stakeholders' needs often requires re-planning of an existing release plan to accommodate changes. H2W is a re-planning method that answers the questions of how, when, and what to re-plan of an existing product release strategy. For HOW, a greedy heuristic based on prioritization of candidate features is applied. A value-based re-planning approach is proposed for the WHEN question. For WHAT, a trade-off analysis between the degree of change related to the originally announced release plan and the improvement achievable by replacing existing features with more attractive ones is suggested. At each of the re-planning iterations, H2W either provides a new improved plan or states that an improvement does not exist. As a proof-of-concept, a case study is conducted.