Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Software Product Management

In today´s competitive software markets it is of utmost interest to have winning products. The success of any software product depends on skill-full and competent product management. Software product management includes product requirements, release definition, product release lifecycles, creating an effective multifunctional product introduction team and - above all - assuring a winning business case. Indeed software product management is complex: there are many stakeholders, many responsibilities and no formalized education or body of (scientific) knowledge.