Project portfolios for the annual maintenance of infrastructure assets may contain dozens of projects which are selected out of hundreds of candidate projects. When selecting these projects, it is necessary to account for multiple evaluation criteria, project interdependencies, and uncertainties about project performance as well as financial and other relevant constraints. In this paper, we rep...

While the concept of control has been widely studied in information technology project management, and a plethora of mechanisms are commonly used to control information systems development (ISD) teams, very little research exists on the management, and particularly control, of IS project portfolios. Using exploratory case studies this research-in-progress seeks to contribute to practice by firs...

This case study reviews a GEF/World Bank-supported rural electrification project involving SHS dissemination via exclusive concessions in Argentina. The case study focuses on aspects of the project that are most relevant to carbon abatement. Since the Argentina project will receive grant funding under the GEF’s climate change portfolio, certain carbon abatement issues are addressed in GEF and W...

This paper provides a methodological framework in which the problem of IT project portfolio selection is solved by balancing between operational and strategic IT investments. From interviews with CIOs, we found that the interest in IT projects in many firms tends to center on operational benefits, rather than strategic benefits. We examined the impact of strategic IT investments from an IT port...

Managers of product development (PD) project portfolios face difficult decisions in allocating limited resources to minimize project or portfolio delay. Although PD projects are highly iterative (cyclical), almost all of the vast literature on project scheduling assumes that projects are acyclical. This article addresses this gap with a comprehensive analysis of 31 priority rules (PRs) on 18,48...

Technology centered organizations must be able to identify promising new products or process improvements at an early stage so that the necessary resources can be allocated to those activities. It is essential to invest in targeted research and development (R and D) projects as opposed to a wide range of ideas so that resources can be focused on successful outcomes. The selection of the most ap...

a r t i c l e i n f o As global competition intensifies, many national research institutes (NRIs) are investing substantial resources in research and development (R&D) to gain competitive advantage and develop the national economy. However, R&D investment involves a high degree of market and technological uncertainty. The literature on project portfolio selection focuses on either quantitative ...

E-Portfolios are a new type of software and it is still relatively vague to determine, which functions are obligatory – that is which functions constitute characteristic features – and which functions are just optional (“nice to have“). This article describes the concept and the preliminary results of a research project which was conducted to evaluate E-Portfolio software, and aims at providing...