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PRODUCT RELEASE PLANNING	VOICE OF THE STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS	MY PLANS TO BE STAFFED
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO PLANNING		MY STAFFING INFORMATION
IT SERVICE PLANNING		MY STAFFING RESULTS
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Customer Needs Analysis

Prioritization

Product Release Planning

Service Composition

Project Portfolio Planning

Collective Effort Estimation

VOICE OF THE STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

VeryBestChoice Light (VBC Light) allows you to do the following:

Maintain repository of features
Allow stakeholder to annotate features and to suggest new ones
Allows stakeholders to communicate among each other
Flexible definition of stakeholders
Anytime-Anywhere prioritization of features by nominated stakeholders
Assignment of degrees of importance to stakeholders
Drag & drop scoring of features on nine-point scale with fixed or flexible number of scores
Flexible definition of prioritization criteria
Multiple criteria for prioritization
Import and export of project data and results via MS Excel

Insights gained from VBC Light:

Ranking of features for individual criteria (Which features are top
ranked?)
Ranking of features for aggregation of all criteria (Which features are top ranked?)
Trade-off analysis of features (How features are scored looking at two
criteria?)
Analysis of commonalities between stakeholder opinions (Which features are largely agreed upon between stakeholders?)
Analysis of differences between stakeholder opinions (Which features are most controversial between stakeholders?)
Comparison of stakeholder assigned priorities for groups of features (How do groups of features compare to each other in terms of their feature priorities?)
Comparison of priorities between groups of stakeholders (How do two defined groups of stakeholders compare to each other in the priorities assigned to features?)
Commonalities between stakeholders in their feature priority profile (Which stakeholders are similar in their priorites of features?)

(1) PRODUCT RELEASE PLANNING

ReleasePlanner® allows you to do the following:

Customer needs analysis
Customer needs repository
Generation of optimal release plan strategies based on customer needs and resources available
Analysis of a variety of release plan strategies in terms of their performance
Flexible number of periods for planning product releases
Resource bottleneck analysis
Comparative analysis with baseline release plan
Consideration of dependencies between features to be planned
Running pro-active scenarios (What-if analysis) with varying planning parameters (capacities, importance of customers or criteria)
Export of planning results into MS Excel

(2) PROJECT PORTFOLIO PLANNING

ReleasePlanner® allows you to do the following:

Customer needs analysis
Import and export of project data (MS Excel)
Generation of optimal project portfolio strategies based on customer needs and resources available
Analysis of a portfolio of qualified strategies in terms of their performance
Flexible number of periods for planning project portfolios
Resource bottleneck analysis
Comparative analysis with baseline portfolio
Consideration of dependencies between projects to be planned
Running pro-active scenarios (What-if analysis) with varying planning parameters (capacities, importance of customers or criteria)
Export of planning results into MS Excel

(3) IT SERVICE PLANNING

ReleasePlanner® allows you to do the following:

Customer needs analysis
Import and export of project data (MS Excel)
Generation of optimal service strategies based on customer needs and resources available
Analysis of a portfolio of qualified service strategies in terms of their performance
Flexible number of periods for planning service portfolios
Resource bottleneck analysis
Comparative analysis with baseline service portfolio
Consideration of dependencies between services to be planned
Running pro-active scenarios (What-if analysis) with varying planning parameters (capacities, importance of customers or criteria
Export of planning results into MS Excel

(4) PLATFORM HOSTED AT YOUR SERVER

In case of high security and data integrity demands, our platform can also be installed on your server. This installation can be combined with customization of the functionality according to your needs.

OPTIMIZED STAFFING

The usage of the tool is organized in three main sections:

My plans to be staffed:
Allows for the selection or definition of a strategic plan to be staffed.
My staffing information:
Allows for entering and editing of all the parameters and data necessary for running the staffing procedure.
My staffing results:
Allows for generating Gantt charts for visualizing the results. That means it gives the sequence of tasks to be performed by each developer according to the optimized plan.

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