Multicriteria project evaluation and resource allocation decisions are central and recurrent activities in business and public administration alike. These problems are typically characterized by large number of project proposals, portfolio balance requirements and other constraints; they are also often pressed by urgency and limited data availability. Simple additive scoring models, which o er ...

Software cost estimation is a crucial task in software project portfolio decisions like start scheduling, resource allocation, or bidding. A variety of estimation methods have been proposed to support estimators. Especially the analogy-based approach—based on a project’s similarities with past projects—has been reported as both efficient and relatively transparent. However, its performance was ...

Enterprise executives frequently face the challenge of making decisions under conditions of significant uncertainty when dealing with IT investments, IT project management and realization of intangible organizational benefits enabled by IT. A suitable methodology for accurately estimating the current financial standing of each project in a portfolio of IT projects over the full project lifecycl...

Abstract Understanding the value of a product development project is central to a firm’s choice of project portfolio. The value of a project to a firm depends not only on the project’s properties but also on the other projects being developed by the firm. This is due to interactions with other projects in the portfolio that address the same consumer need and with other projects that require the...

The growing number of company projects requires comprehensive management, project portfolio management (PPM), for strategic alignment and efficient use of resources. In parallel, companies face customers demanding higher value, and joint value creation with customers is considered a key success factor in the future. Project portfolios delivering products and services for customers implicate a l...

In a qualitative research approach, an interpretive case study has been conducted. 26 experts from a large financial service provider of the cooperative banking sector were interviewed. The impact of organizational culture on the management of an organization’s IT project portfolio was subject to inquiry. We have identified three core dimensions of the organizational culture of the analyzed ban...