A hybrid release planning method and its empirical justification

Przepiora, Mark Richard; Karimpour, Reza; Ruhe, Guenther

doi:10.1145/2372251.2372271

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“…An overview of the state-of-the art in feature dependencies is given in [10]. A solution accommodating advanced feature constraints and its empirical evaluation is presented in [11].…”

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Theme-Based Product Release Planning: An Analytical Approach

Agarwal

Karimpour

Ruhe

2014

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Release planning is part of iterative software development and strongly impacts the success of a product by providing a roadmap for future releases. As such, it is of key importance for lean and agile organizations. Often features are highly dependent on each other and the value of a release is influenced by a set of bundled features constituting a theme.This paper addresses the topic of theme-based release planning. Themes might be defined, manually, upfront or as the result of computer-based analysis. In this paper, we propose an analytical approach to detect themes from a given set of feature dependencies. On top of an existing release planning methodology called EVOLVE II, our approach applies clustering performed on a feature dependency graph. The release plans generated from such an approach are a balance between two goals: (i) considering the values of individual features, (ii) detecting and utilizing synergy effects between semantically related features.As a proof-of-concept, we present a case study addressing the theme-based release planning for 50 features of a text processing system. The preliminary evaluation results show improved release plans with regards to accommodating themes.

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“…An overview of the state-of-the art in feature dependencies is given in [10]. A solution accommodating advanced feature constraints and its empirical evaluation is presented in [11].…”

Section: Release Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A stakeholder-centric variation of it was evaluated in [13] for the planning of an agile tool called Agilefant. In this paper, we apply ReleasePlanner with the advanced capabilities of [11] to accommodate more complex feature dependencies. This allows us to determine optimized release plans in consideration of extracted themes.…”

Section: Release Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theme-Based Product Release Planning: An Analytical Approach

Agarwal

Karimpour

Ruhe

2014

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…The CCA matrix shown in Figure 6 was further analyzed. All these inconsistencies are taken as an input for the subsequent release optimization process [24]. In addition to inconsistency analysis, cost and value synergy relationships between a feature's functionality levels offered in conjunction are taken as input for optimizing release plans.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Optimization algorithm is utilizing the results from [24] which allow accommodating more complex constraints rather than just coupling and precedence. The additional computational complexity of this more general class of planning problems is addressed by a two-staged solution procedure combining the subsequent usage of specialized integer programming and constraint programming.…”

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An open innovation approach in support of product release decisions

Nayebi

Ruhe

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

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Release decisions are of pivotal importance for product success in incremental and iterative software development. In this paper, the wickedness of these decisions is approached by a collective problem solving process. The paradigm of Open Innovations is emphasizing the range of opportunities available to access distributed knowledge and information. In particular, we apply (i) Analytical Open Innovation for information gathering and (ii) Morphological Analysis (MA) for problem structuring.The proposed decision support methodology is illustrated by a comprehensive case study. In the context of OTT service delivery, planning of both features and their different functionality levels is studied. From the broad involvement of stakeholders in the whole formulation, structuring and solution process, a higher validity and customer value of the developed products is demonstrated. Without performing MA, the proposed feature implementations would include inconsistencies creating customer and user concerns. Furthermore, from community based detection of cost and value synergies, potential resource savings and additional value creation opportunities are utilized.

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“…The second method is the hybrid release planning approach which relies on both human and computational intelligence to systematically generate release planning solutions. In recent years, various formal models, such as Planning Game [4], Incremental Funding Method (IFM) [5], optimizationbased techniques [6], Hybrid Intelligence approach [7,8], and Lightweight Re-planning [9], have been developed in which systematic methods are able to present several alternative solutions. In addition to these, Mohebzada [10] proposes a recommendations for release planning in which individuals play the main role to follow presented systematic instructions.…”

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Towards a highly customizable framework for release planning process

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Original scientific paper In software development, release planning is performed to select important features and requirements based on resource and technical constraints and the relationships between requirements. Release planning focuses on finding an optimal solution by seeking various states. This kind of solution finding reveals two remarks. First, it shows that there are various, ambiguous and uncertain parameters that influence the solution. Second, there is not only one solution to any problem. Various solutions can be found that differ in their performance (e.g. time performance, complexity performance, etc.). Consequently, many methods for release planning are often specific to only certain problem domains. This paper examines various current release planning methods to extract the common activities and thoughts in order to establish a customizable framework for release planning. Customization is done by identifying effective parameters, parameter instances and their relationships so that they can affect the selection of the right algorithm or method for each activity. Project characteristics can be specified based on the parameter instances and they are then used to determine the suitable method for achieving each activity within the whole release planning process and the results of which are recorded. This proposed highly customizable process framework with its possible customization features is then validated in several software companies. In 85 % of the cases, the suggested framework for every activity of the process fits the companies' circumstances and helps to hasten the process of release planning.Keywords: customizable process; effective parameters; release planning U cilju velike prilagodljivosti okvira za planiranje puštanja u promet Izvorni znanstveni članak U razvoju softvera, planiranjem puštanja u promet izabiru se važna svojstva i zahtjevi temeljeni na tehničkim ograničenjima i ograničenjima sredstava te odnosima između zahtjeva. Planiranje puštanja u promet usmjereno je na pronalaženje optimalnog rješenja traženjem raznih stanja. Takav način traženja rješenja otkriva dvije stvari. Prvo, pokazuje da postoje različiti nejasni i nesigurni parametri koji utječu na rješenje. Drugo, da ne postoji samo jedno rješenja za neki problem. Mogu postojati različita rješenja koja se razlikuju po svojim karakteristikama (na pr. u odnosu na trajanje, složenost itd.). Stoga su mnoge metode planiranja puštanja u promet često specifične za samo neke aspekte problema. U ovom se radu istražuju razne postojeće metode za planiranje pokretanja u svrhu pronalaženja nekih općih razmišljanja i aktivnosti za uspostavljanje prilagodljivog okvira za planiranje puštanja u promet. Prilagodba se postiže identificiranjem učinkovitih parametara ili primjera parametara i njihovih odnosa tako da se može izabrati pravi algoritam ili metoda za svaku aktivnost. Karakteristike projekta mogu se odrediti na osnovu primjera parametara te se oni tada primjenjuju za određivanje odgovarajuće metode za izvršavanje pojedine aktivnosti...

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A hybrid release planning method and its empirical justification

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Theme-Based Product Release Planning: An Analytical Approach

Theme-Based Product Release Planning: An Analytical Approach

An open innovation approach in support of product release decisions

Towards a highly customizable framework for release planning process

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