Resumen
Product life cycle of application software entails customer data, product requirements, development, testing and release and maintenance. Software product life cycle management starts with measuring the critical features of the product and activities performed in each phase of its life cycle. Ideally, the data is aggregated and summarized in a product life cycle warehouse where it is then available for generating views, automated alerts and correlation rules from day-to-day operations. Much of this work is performed by software agents autonomously mining the data and providing automated alerts based on thresholds and correlation rules. Such a system might alert development managers to situations like when too much time is being consumed to resolve product defects, when there are too many defects, and when milestones set for product release might be missed. BMC Software Inc. implemented a prototype life cycle management approach called Measure, Alert, Understand, and Improve (MAUI) to manage several problematic software projects. The article discusses this approach in depth.