Chapter 3
Features and Their Prioritization
3.1 Introduction
The input for the release planning process is a set of features that are evolving over time due to changing user requirements and better problem understanding. Intuitively, features are key distinctive characteristics of a product. Features are an abstraction from requirements that both customers and developers understand. They are seen as the “selling units” of a product.
Prioritization of features is the process of assigning a priority to them. This is typically done by multiple stakeholders and related to multiple criteria. Prioritization sounds simple but it is not. Already on a conceptual level, you need to specify who is doing the prioritization, what is being prioritized, ...
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