Quantitative release planning in extreme programming

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1227-1235

  Van Valkenhoef, Gert ^a,b   Tervonen, Tommi ^c   De Brock, Bert ^b   Postmus, Douwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Customer role; Extreme programming; Integer programming; Project management

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; BUSINESS VALUE; COMPUTATIONAL TESTS; CUSTOMER REPRESENTATIVE; CUSTOMER ROLE; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC APPROACH; INFORMED DECISION; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PLANNING PROBLEM; PRECEDENCE RELATIONS; RELEASE PLANNING; VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY PREDICTION;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SALES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80051671632     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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