DocumentCode
1834765
Title
What do we know about software product management? - a systematic mapping study
Author
Maglyas, Andrey ; Nikula, Uolevi ; Smolander, Kari
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Lappeenranta Univ. of Technol., Lappeenranta, Finland
fYear
2011
fDate
30-30 Aug. 2011
Firstpage
26
Lastpage
35
Abstract
Software product management (SPM) offers tools and practices for achieving business goals of a company as well as for increasing the predictability and profitability of software product development. Despite the importance of this topic, the studies of SPM have this far been fragmented. The goal of the present study is to summarize the existing knowledge in software product management and identify the areas which need further research. The paper reports the conduct and the results of a systematic mapping study which identified 25 studies on SPM. Still, most of the papers had only hypotheses and theories that were not empirically confirmed or the confirmation was based on a small set of cases. The existing knowledge of software product management consists of small and unconnected pieces. In addition to this, our specific interest, software product management in the cloud environment has not been studied at all. However, since both researchers and practitioners find research in SPM important, this area needs more research in the future.
Keywords
software management; SPM; cloud environment; software product management; Companies; Context; Databases; Project management; Software; Systematics; cloud environment; services; software product management; systematic literature review; systematic mapping study;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Product Management (IWSPM), 2011 Fifth International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Trento
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1146-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4577-1147-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IWSPM.2011.6046201
Filename
6046201
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