The Software Product Management Workbench: An Integrated Environment for Managing Product Releases in a Distributed Development Context

Product management in software product companies is complex due to the many intertwined information flows on releases, products and requirements, and the high number of different stakeholders that are involved. We propose the Software Product Management Workbench for operational support of requirements management, release planning, product roadmapping, and portfolio management. In this paper, we describe the functional design, architectural design, and show the requirements similarity functionality in the prototype.