{"id":184939,"date":"2010-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/the-battle-for-the-right-features-the-art-and-science-of-product-release-planning\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:28:49","slug":"the-battle-for-the-right-features-the-art-and-science-of-product-release-planning","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/the-battle-for-the-right-features-the-art-and-science-of-product-release-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for the Right Features &#8211; The Art and Science of Product Release Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>Features are the selling units of a product. There are a number of difficult decisions to be made in the context of product release planning and re-planning. Are the key features expected from the different groups of customer&#8217;s part of the next releases? Are the features provided the ones really expected? How many features constitute a good product release? How to utilize my development and other resources in a best possible way coming as close as possible to customer expectations? Is re-planning recommended? If &#8220;yes&#8221;, when and to what extend?<\/p>\n<p>This talk discusses processes, methods and their implementation to support product managers in their product release decisions. The proposed solution approach aims at a combination of formality and rigor (called Science) with the intuition and expertise of the human decision maker (called Art). Stakeholder participation is a key component of this process. The principle of diversification is applied to facilitate their involvement in decision-making. The whole approach has been implemented in a decision support system called ReleasePlanner\u2122. 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