1. DECIDERelease Method Engineering - Presentation Maarten Huijs

2. Purpose The process of developing and delivering software to stakeholders is often done in releases. Release Planning refers to the ability to divide different features among multiple releases. DECIDERelease aims to maximize the effectiveness of releasing software. Combining multiple methods to aid the product manager in the release process Increasing the robustness and thus the quality of the decision-making process, which is critical for Release Planning.

3. Origins First mentioned in: Al-Emran, A., Pfahl, D., & Ruhe, G. (2010). Decision Support for Product Release Planning Based on Robustness Analysis. In Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2010 18th IEEE International (pp. 157–166).

4. Author Ahmed Al-Emran BSc in Computer Science and Engineering MSc in Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering PhD (In Progress) in Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering

5. Author Dietmar Pfahl Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Calgary

6. Author Dr. Günther Ruhe Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. Leading a research team focusing on the area of software engineering and decision support CEO ReleasePlanner

7. Main phases

8. PDD

9. Features per Stakeholders

10. Release Planning

11. PDD

12. Related literature A product manager is currently spending 60% on: - planning the roadmap - generating release plans - using no specific release method (ad hoc). Using ReleasePlanner there is an increased efficiency that allows a product manager to spend only 20% of their time on doing the same. Momoh, Ruhe (2006) Momoh J., Ruhe G. (2006) Release Planning Process Improvement – An Industrial Case Study. Software Process Improvement 6(11) 295–307 Interscience wiley DOI: 10.1002/ spip.273

13. Related literature Al-Emran, A., Pfahl, D., & Ruhe, G. (2010). A HYBRID METHOD FOR ADVANCE DECISION SUPPORT IN STRATEGIC PRODUCT RELEASE PLANNING. Software Engineering decision support laboratory, 8(2), 88-95. Example of DECIDERelease

14. Related literature Ruhe, Saliu (2005) Ruhe, Ngo-The (2004)

15. Related literature Al-Emran, A., Pfahl, D., & Ruhe, G. (2010). Decision Support for Product Release Planning Based on Robustness Analysis. In Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2010 18th IEEE International (pp. 157–166). Explanation of the combination of different methods Momoh, Ruhe (2006)

16. Questions?