Towards a conceptual framework and tool support for linking long-term product and business planning with agile software development

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-28

  Vähäniitty, Jarno ^a   Rautiainen, Kristian T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

agile; backlog management; development portfolio; portfolio management; product and business planning; software development governance; tool support

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PLANNING; MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT; PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TOOL SUPPORT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77953591194     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370720.1370730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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