A Methodology to Support Product-Differentiation Decisions

A Methodology to Support Software Release Decisions (Sassenburg)

A relatively unexplored area in the field of software management is the implementation or release decision, deciding whether or not a software product can be transferred from its development phase to operational use. Many software manufacturers have difficulty in determining the ‘right’ moment to release their software products. It is a trade-off between an early release, to capture the benefit...

A methodology for knowledge discovery to support product family design

A Novel Knowledge Management Methodology to Support Collaborative Product Development

This paper discusses the theoretical aspects and applications of a novel methodology for exploiting a knowledge management editor tool to structure organisational knowledge. An organisational knowledge framework for capturing and representing design and manufacturing know-how has been defined using an ontological approach. The key business benefit of adopting such an approach arises from the cl...

From Methodology to Product Development

Usability is one of the most important aspects of software. A multitude of methods and techniques intended to support the development of usable systems has been provided, but the impact on industrial software development has been limited. One of the reasons for this limited success is the gap between traditional academic theory generation and commercial practice. Another reason is the gap betwe...

Recommendations to Support Staffing Decisions

We have developed a recommender system to assist project managers at MITRE with identifying and learning about potential candidates for open project positions. Features were added to the user interface for the recommender as a result of a pilot study in which the recommender was used to suggest job candidates for open positions. In this paper we explain how the recommender is implemented, descr...