Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Jarno Vähäniitty Name of the doctoral dissertation Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Computer Science and Engineering Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 15/2012 Field of research Software Engineering Manuscript submitted 14 June 2011 Man...

An important strategic decision within the food industry is to achieve the optimal product portfolio allowing an organization to support its customers in the best possible way. Numerous models exist to categorize products based on their relative metrics like revenue, volume, margin or constructed scores. In order to make a more profound decision whether to keep or to remove a product from the p...

Despite the fact that innovation portfolio management is an important driver of innovation excellence, it has been relatively overlooked by many companies. Yet, by employing it, firms may realize shorter and leaner innovation processes, thereby strengthening their competitive position. This article explains the key steps that managers can take to implement or enhance their organizations' innova...

There is significant interest in managing IT resources as a portfolio of assets. The concept of IT portfolio management (ITPM) is relatively new, compared to portfolio management in the context of finance, new product development (NPD), and research and development (R&D). This article compares ITPM with other types of portfolio management, and develops an improved understanding of IT assets and...

Software product line engineering aims to reduce development time, effort, cost, and complexity by taking advantage of the commonality within a portfolio of similar products. The effectiveness of a software product line approach directly depends on how well feature variability within the portfolio is implemented and managed throughout the development lifecycle, from early analysis through maint...

Modular product portfolio architecture to maximize shared systems/components among products is increasingly popular in product development for reasons of economy of scale and scope. Product development is no longer sufficient to consider only a single product. Instead, it must also consider the needs of a brand family or portfolio. One of the main challenges in designing multiple brands from th...