Software product roadmapping in a volatile business environment

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 958-975

  Suomalainen, Tanja ^a   Salo, Outi ^b   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^c   Similä, Jouni ^d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Product development; Product roadmapping; Roadmapping process; Software product management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; LONG-TERM DECISIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PRODUCT ROADMAPPING; QUALITATIVE DATA; ROADMAP; ROADMAPPING; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SOFTWARE BUSINESS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79953705056     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.01.031     Document Type: Article

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