Decision-Making about Software Release Time Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

This paper shows a systematic method to decide software release time using AHP (analytic hierarchy process). The method helps a project team to make a correct decision about the software release time by combining multiple evaluations obtained from different viewpoints. In general, it is difficult to obtain quantitative evaluations of all the aspects to be considered in a software development project, due to the lack of methodologies, manpower, and information. Therefore, qualitative evaluation based on the intuition and experience of specialists in software development, software sales activities, management, etc. is incorporated into the decision-making process.