Many product development methodologies strategically allocate resources to create a portfolio of technology projects. These methodologies work well for projects that are predominantly independent of one another and occur in a common funding cycle. When the projects become interdependent, the complexity of optimizing even a moderate number of projects over a small number of objectives and constr...

When organizations do not have well defined goals and constraints, traditional mixed integer programming MIP models are ineffective for portfolio selection. In such cases, some organizations revert to building project portfolios based on data envelopment analysis DEA relative efficiency scores. However, implementing the k most efficient projects until resources are expended will not always resu...

projects execution is an important way to implement organizational strategies, especially in the project-based organizations. in such organizations, the decision-makers usually encounter a problem of the project portfolio selection. of course, regarding the decision-makers’ risk attitude, they tend to direct organizational resources toward projects with low threats and high opportunities. this ...

This is an experience report on automated mass maintenance of a large Cobol software portfolio. A company in the financial services and insurance industry upgraded their database system to a new version, affecting their entire software portfolio. The database system was accessed by the portfolio of 45 systems, totalling nearly 3000 programs and covering over 4 million lines of Cobol code. We up...

A company depends on the definition and implementation of a set of projects aligned with the vision established by its senior management to accomplish its strategies. To this set of projects is given the name of portfolio. This paper implements a collaborative tool to support the construction and selection of a project portfolio aligned with the corporate strategy. The tool is capable of modeli...

Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problem for the next half-century. A portfolio of technologies now exists to meet the world's energy needs over the next 50 years and limit atmospheric CO2 to a trajectory that avoids a doubling of the preindustrial concentration. Every element in this portfolio has passed b...

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, selecting an appropriate set of projects from a portfolio of candidate projects is vital for enterprises. An accurate selection of projects can steer a company to great success, while a careless selection may lead it to bankruptcy. Variability of project parameters such as benefit, cost, risk (failure probability), etc. during planning horizon makes th...

The relevance of the research topic is due to need for improvement and further development scientific methodological support portfolio management processes in context introduction portfolio-oriented field local (territorial) self-government project management, including public participation (PP) projects.

The objective of the present case study is the validation of the Architecture and Development Process definitions used within the TIDIA-Ae Project, as exemplified in the development of the Portfolio tool. In this way, the main results obtained in the development process of the Portfolio tool, the solutions adopted for the open issues encountered in this process, and the main lessons to be learn...