%0 Generic %1 ho2014prototype %A Ho, Jason %A Shahnewaz, Shawn %A Ruhe, Guenther %B 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering %C Mountain View, CA, USA %D 2014 %K product.planning release.planning %T A Prototype Tool Supporting When-to-release Decisions in Iterative Development %X Shortening release cycles is one of the key elements for achieving highly competitive product releases. However, decisions about when-to-release are inherently complex: The potential competitive advantage through faster delivery needs to be balanced against the degree of readiness of the product (overall quality) and the added value through new and revised features. Pro-active analysis of the estimated impact of running through various release scenarios is expected to provide insights and essential inputs for the actual decision-making. When-to-release decisions are largely re-actively using existing release planning tools such as IBM Focal Point, On-time (for Scrum-based development) or ReleasePlanner. In this paper, the authors propose a plugin tool that analyzes the impact of varying the release date. More precisely, we proactively investigate the trade-off relationship between the total amount of implemented functionality and the predicted quality achieved from the related effort investment. As a result, the product managers are empowered to see the projected impact of releasing earlier (or later) in terms of reduced (or added) functionality and/or quality. As a proof-of-concept, we provide some preliminary results on the usage of the tool.

@conference{ho2014prototype, abstract = {Shortening release cycles is one of the key elements for achieving highly competitive product releases. However, decisions about when-to-release are inherently complex: The potential competitive advantage through faster delivery needs to be balanced against the degree of readiness of the product (overall quality) and the added value through new and revised features. Pro-active analysis of the estimated impact of running through various release scenarios is expected to provide insights and essential inputs for the actual decision-making. When-to-release decisions are largely re-actively using existing release planning tools such as IBM Focal Point, On-time (for Scrum-based development) or ReleasePlanner. In this paper, the authors propose a plugin tool that analyzes the impact of varying the release date. More precisely, we proactively investigate the trade-off relationship between the total amount of implemented functionality and the predicted quality achieved from the related effort investment. As a result, the product managers are empowered to see the projected impact of releasing earlier (or later) in terms of reduced (or added) functionality and/or quality. As a proof-of-concept, we provide some preliminary results on the usage of the tool. }, added-at = {2015-04-20T12:01:12.000+0200}, address = {Mountain View, CA, USA}, author = {Ho, Jason and Shahnewaz, Shawn and Ruhe, Guenther}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d6f2d6716e17ed70b358cafd63ff60a5/ispma}, booktitle = {2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering}, interhash = {e70cd0ca909c4fad48beae08cbbbf415}, intrahash = {d6f2d6716e17ed70b358cafd63ff60a5}, keywords = {product.planning release.planning}, timestamp = {2015-04-20T12:01:12.000+0200}, title = {A Prototype Tool Supporting When-to-release Decisions in Iterative Development}, year = 2014 }