Exploring software product management decision problems with constraint solving – opportunities for prioritization and release planning
Regnell, Björn LU
and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof
LU
(2011)
5th International Workshop on Software Product Management
p.47-56
- Abstract
- Decision-making is central to Software Product
Management (SPM) and includes deciding on requirements
priorities and the content of coming releases. Several algorithms
for prioritization and release planning have been
proposed, where humans with or without machine support
enact a series of steps to produce a decision outcome. Instead
of applying some specific algorithm to find an acceptable
solution to a decision problem, we propose to model SPM
decision-making as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP),
where relative and absolute priorities, interdependencies, and
other constraints are expressed as relations among variables
representing... (More) - Decision-making is central to Software Product
Management (SPM) and includes deciding on requirements
priorities and the content of coming releases. Several algorithms
for prioritization and release planning have been
proposed, where humans with or without machine support
enact a series of steps to produce a decision outcome. Instead
of applying some specific algorithm to find an acceptable
solution to a decision problem, we propose to model SPM
decision-making as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP),
where relative and absolute priorities, interdependencies, and
other constraints are expressed as relations among variables
representing entities such as feature priorities, stakeholder
preferences, and resource constraints. The solution space is
then explored with the help of a constraint solver without
humans needing to care about specific algorithms. This paper
discusses advantages and limitations of CSP modeling in
SPM and gives principal examples as a proof-of-concept
of CSP modeling in requirements prioritization and release
planning. A discussion of further research on constraint
solving in SPM is also given. (Less)
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- author
- Regnell, Björn
LU
and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- release planning, requirementsengineering, software product management, prioritization, constraint programming
- host publication
- 2011 Fifth International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM)
- pages
- 47 - 56
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 5th International Workshop on Software Product Management
- conference location
- 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2011, Trento, Italy
- conference dates
- 2011-08-29 - 2011-09-02
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:80555133310
- ISBN
- 978-1-4577-1146-6
- 978-1-4577-1147-3
- DOI
- 10.1109/IWSPM.2011.6046203
- language
- English
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Management (SPM) and includes deciding on requirements<br/><br>
priorities and the content of coming releases. Several algorithms<br/><br>
for prioritization and release planning have been<br/><br>
proposed, where humans with or without machine support<br/><br>
enact a series of steps to produce a decision outcome. Instead<br/><br>
of applying some specific algorithm to find an acceptable<br/><br>
solution to a decision problem, we propose to model SPM<br/><br>
decision-making as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP),<br/><br>
where relative and absolute priorities, interdependencies, and<br/><br>
other constraints are expressed as relations among variables<br/><br>
representing entities such as feature priorities, stakeholder<br/><br>
preferences, and resource constraints. The solution space is<br/><br>
then explored with the help of a constraint solver without<br/><br>
humans needing to care about specific algorithms. This paper<br/><br>
discusses advantages and limitations of CSP modeling in<br/><br>
SPM and gives principal examples as a proof-of-concept<br/><br>
of CSP modeling in requirements prioritization and release<br/><br>
planning. A discussion of further research on constraint<br/><br>
solving in SPM is also given.}},
author = {{Regnell, Björn and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof}},
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language = {{eng}},
pages = {{47--56}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
title = {{Exploring software product management decision problems with constraint solving – opportunities for prioritization and release planning}},
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doi = {{10.1109/IWSPM.2011.6046203}},
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