DocumentCode :
2393332
Title :
Linking the business view to requirements engineering: long-term product planning by roadmapping
Author :
Lehtola, Laura ; Kauppinen, Marjo ; Kujala, Sari
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Software Bus. & Eng., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
fYear :
2005
fDate :
29 Aug.-2 Sept. 2005
Firstpage :
439
Lastpage :
443
Abstract :
Companies moving into the software product business and growing in size face new challenges that cannot be tackled completely with old practices. For example, the future development steps of the off-the-shelf products cannot be negotiated with just one or a few customers any more. This means that practitioners should be able to take aspects such as their company´s own strategy and available market information more effectively into account in such decision-making. However, usually the company or business unit strategy is so high level that the gap to single requirements documents is far too long. Roadmapping is one technique that companies have used for long-term product planning in order to link the business view to requirements engineering (RE), and to make more business oriented product development decisions. In addition, roadmapping has been used to share a common understanding about the future development steps of products with different stakeholders. However, the application of the technique is not always easy. This paper gives an overview of roadmapping as a technique, and describes lessons learned from one Finnish software product company that has developed and evaluated its own roadmapping processes in their organization.
Keywords :
DP industry; planning; product development; software development management; systems analysis; business oriented product development; business view; long-term product planning; requirements engineering; roadmapping; Application software; Companies; Decision making; Engineering management; Joining processes; Manifolds; Product development; Scheduling; Software development management; Technology planning;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 2005. Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2425-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RE.2005.36
Filename :
1531067
Link To Document :
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