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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Trieflinger, Stefan"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Product Roadmap Formats for an Uncertain Future: A Grey Literature Review
    (Software Management 2021, 2021) Trieflinger, Stefan; Münch, Jürgen; Bogazköy, Emre; Eißler, Patrick; Schneider, Jan; Roling, Bastian
    Product Roadmaps aim to provide direction, enable consistent development in relation to a product vision and support communication with relevant stakeholders. There are many different formats for product roadmaps, but they are often based on the assumption that the future is highly predictable. However, especially software-intensive businesses are faced with increasing market dynamics, rapidly evolving technologies and changing user expectations. Consequently, many organizations are wondering what roadmap format is appropriate for them and what components it should have to deal with an unpredictable future. Objective: This paper aims to identify suitable formats for the development and handling of product roadmaps in dynamic and uncertain markets. Method: We performed a grey literature review according to Garousi. Results: First, various components of the roadmap were identified, especially goals, themes, outcomes and outputs. Second, various product roadmap formats (e.g. theme-based roadmaps) were discovered. The roadmap components were then assigned to the various product roadmap formats. This overview aims at providing decision support for companies to select a suitable product roadmap format and adapt it to their own needs.
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    What's Hot in Product Roadmapping?
    (Software Engineering 2020, 2020) Münch, Jürgen; Trieflinger, Stefan; Lang, Dominic
    Organizations are increasingly challenged by dynamic and technical market environments. Traditional product roadmapping practices such as detailed and fixed long-term planning typically fail in such environments. Therefore, companies are actively seeking ways to improve their product roadmapping approach. This paper aims at identifying problems and challenges with respect to product roadmapping. In addition, it aims at understanding how companies succeed in improving their roadmapping practices in their respective company contexts. We conducted semi-structured expert interviews with 15 experts from 13 German companies and conducted a thematic data analysis. The analysis showed that a significant number of companies is still struggling with traditional feature-based product-roadmapping and opinion-based prioritization of features. The most promising areas for improvement are stating the outcomes a company is trying to achieve and making them part of the roadmap, sharing or co-developing the roadmap with stakeholders, and establishing discovery activities. This summary refers to the paper What´s Hot in Product Roadmapping? Key Practices and Success Factors. This paper was published as full research paper in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES).