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Product Release Planning
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Product Release Planning

by Guenther Ruhe
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
339 pages
8h 51m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Chapter 3

Features and Their Prioritization

3.1 Introduction

The input for the release planning process is a set of features that are evolving over time due to changing user requirements and better problem understanding. Intuitively, features are key distinctive characteristics of a product. Features are an abstraction from requirements that both customers and developers understand. They are seen as the “selling units” of a product.

Prioritization of features is the process of assigning a priority to them. This is typically done by multiple stakeholders and related to multiple criteria. Prioritization sounds simple but it is not. Already on a conceptual level, you need to specify who is doing the prioritization, what is being prioritized, ...

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