IWSPM 2011 - The International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM’11)

Software Product Management (IWSPM’11)

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Marjo Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden

Software product management is the discipline of managing software-intensive products across their life-cycle. It includes working with requirements, release definitions, product lifecycles, the creation and interpretation of product strategies, balancing long-term technology push with shorter-term market-pull, and assuring a successful business case by selecting the right requirement for realization. Software product management is complex: there are many intra- and inter-organizational stakeholders and many responsibilities. Currently, there is no formalized education on software product management and only a small, but growing, body of scientific knowledge.

Following the success of the 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 workshops in conjunction with the respective RE-conferences, the IWSPM 2011 workshop shall continue to increase the body of knowledge for software product management by providing a forum to exchange ideas and publish research results. It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts.

Software product management is not only relevant for pure software companies and companies that develop software intensive systems, but also for companies that provide services to customers using long-lived software infrastructures. The field of software product management is relatively unexplored from both the scientific and industrial perspectives. IWSPM brings together researchers and industrial representatives for the purpose of exchanging ideas and to iteratively guide the research agenda based on industry needs.