Product Release Planning

Contents

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART A: FOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER 1Overview and Introduction

1.1 What is Release Planning and Why Do We Care?

1.2 Misconceptions about Release Planning

1.3 How the Book is Structured

1.4 Some Assumptions to Share

1.5 Who Should Read This Book?

1.6 Expected Benefits

CHAPTER 2Decisions and How to Make Them

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Three Product Release Decision Scenarios

2.3 Classification of Decisions

2.4 Decision-Making versus Decision Support

2.5 The Decision-Making Process

2.6 Evolutionary Problem Solving

2.7 An Integrated Approach to Decision-Making

CHAPTER 3Features and Their Prioritization

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Features

3.3 Feature Elicitation

3.4 Criteria for Feature Prioritization

3.5 Selection of Stakeholders ...