According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

The corporation of the 1990s: Information technology and organizational transformation

Harvard Business Review : 抄録雑誌の概要

Software vendors lack the perspective to develop software within a software ecosystem. The inability to function in a software ecosystem has already led to the demise of many software vendors, leading to loss of competition, intellectual property, and eventually jobs in the software industry. In this paper we present a research agenda on software ecosystems to study both the technical and the business aspects of software engineering in vibrant ecosystems. The results of such research enable software vendors to develop software that is adaptable to new business models and new markets, and to make strategic choices that help a software vendor to thrive in a software ecosystem.

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A sense of community: A research agenda for software ecosystems

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Strategic planning for information systems

In the last decade, software product management has received much practical attention, though research in this area is still scattered. In this paper, we present a reference framework for software product management, in which the key process areas, namely portfolio management, product roadmapping, release planning and requirements management, are identified, as well as the stakeholders and their relations. With this reference framework, we provide a structure for a body of knowledge for software product management.

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Towards a Reference Framework for Software Product Management

We present a mathematical formalization of release planning with a corresponding optimization tool that supports product and project managers during release planning. The tool is based on integer linear programming and assumes that an optimal set of requirements is the set with maximal projected revenue against available resources. The input for the optimization is twofold. The first type of input data concerns the list of candidate requirements, estimated revenues, and resources needed. Second, managerial steering mechanisms enable what-if analysis in the optimization environment. Experiments based on real-life data made a sound case for the applicability of our approach.

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Software product release planning through optimization and what-if analysis

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is increasingly important for organisations acting in dynamic and competitive markets. In practice however, companies struggle with implementing PLM. Because PLM is rather a concept than a system, as its main premises are to improve sustainable advantage through agility and innovation. The concept implies structural, cross-functional and long-term cooperation between actors in- and outside the firm. This complexity hampers the achievement of successfully implementing PLM that truly integrates all organisational aspects and levels. The central aim of this paper is to develop a PLM framework to assess and guide PLM implementations. This framework builds upon insights from capability maturity and business/IT-alignment. The results of a first empirical assessment of 23 Dutch organisations are presented, which were used to empirically validate the framework and to provide benchmark data. Based on the framework and benchmark organisations can develop their own PLM Roadmap to increase the success of their PLM implementation.

PLM roadmap: stepwise PLM implementation based on the concepts of maturity and alignment

Software product management does not get as much attention in scientific research as it should have, compared to the high value product software companies ascribe to it. In this paper, we give a status overview of the current software product management domain by performing a literature study and field studies with product managers. Based on these, we are able to present a reference framework for software product management, in which the key process areas, stakeholders and their relations are modeled. To validate the reference framework, we perform a case study in which we analyze the stakeholder communication concerning the conception, development and launching of a new product at a major software vendor. Finally, we propose the Software Product Management Workbench for operational support for product managers in product software companies.

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On the Creation of a Reference Framework for Software Product Management: Validation and Tool Support

The usage of data-intensive web applications raises problems concerning consistency, navigation, and data duplication. Content management systems (CMSs) can overcome these problems. In this research, we focus on special types of web content management systems—web-based CMS applications. Currently, no general available methods exist for implementing and configuring these applications. In this research, an assembly based situational method engineering approach is proposed for constructing an implementation method for web-based CMS applications. The approach consists of four steps: (a) identification of implementation situations, (b) selection of candidate methods, (c) analysis and storage of relevant fragments in the method base, and (d) assembly of the new method using route maps to obtain situationality. This method engineering approach is supported by a meta-modeling technique, resulting in a process-data diagram, which integrates UML (Unified Modeling Language) activity diagrams and class diagrams. To validate the method, two case studies were performed at a large health insurance organization and a telecommunication organization in the Netherlands. The new implementation method performed well in both case studies, and the project workers were satisfied with the associated templates and instructions. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Johan Versendaal

Papers

Towards a Reference Framework for Software Product Management

Software product release planning through optimization and what-if analysis

PLM roadmap: stepwise PLM implementation based on the concepts of maturity and alignment

On the Creation of a Reference Framework for Software Product Management: Validation and Tool Support

A situational implementation method for web-based content management system-applications: method engineering and validation in practice