Analyzing an industrial strategic release planning process: a case study at roche diagnostics

  • Authors:

  • Gabriele Zorn-Pauli;Barbara Paech;Tobias Beck;Hannes Karey;Guenther Ruhe

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany;University of Calgary, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • REFSQ'13 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

[Context and motivation] Strategic release planning (SRP) for a globally used information system is a challenging task. Changes to requirements on different abstraction levels are arriving continuously and have an impact on long-term selected features. [Question/problem] The major question is how to successfully do SRP to create competitive advantage. [Principal ideas/results] An exploratory case study in an industrial context was conducted (1) to get a deeper understanding of the as-is SRP process in practice, (2) to evaluate the suitability of a to-be SRP process, introducing the EVOLVE II method and corresponding ReleasePlanner tool and (3) to gather additional requirements for the to-be SRP process, with respect to feature generation and feature selection. [Contribution] In this paper we describe the case study and present lessons learned to improve and customize a SRP process in practice. In particular, we propose the Requirements Abstraction and Solution Model (RASM) to support feature generation.