Software Requirements
Rough Sets: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data
Rough Sets: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data
Introduction: DSS: Directions for the next decade
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Decision support systems: Directions for the next decade
Matching methodology to problem domain
Communications of the ACM - New architectures for financial services
Supporting Software Release Planning Decisions for Evolving Systems
SEW '05 Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE/NASA on Software Engineering Workshop
A systematic review on strategic release planning models
Information and Software Technology
An experiment with a release planning method for web application development
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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Release planning addresses the process of deciding which requirement of an evolving software system should be assigned to which release. We study two fundamentally different software release planning approaches: (i) ad hoc planning and (ii) systematic planning. Ad hoc planning is mainly based on human intuition, experience and communication. Systematic planning, based on formalization, assumes a quantitative description of the problem, and application of optimization algorithms for its solution. We have performed a controlled experiment intended to investigate hypotheses related to confidence, understanding, and trust related to the two approaches. The stated hypotheses were based on an explorative pre-study and prior industrial release planning projects. Although limited in scope and size, the experiment provided interesting insight into the performance of the stated approaches. Overall, systematic planning based on tool support increased confidence into the solutions and was trusted more than ad hoc planning.