Managing portfolio interdependencies

Managing interdependencies in globally-distributed software development

Robust portfolio modeling with incomplete cost information and project interdependencies

Robust portfolio modeling (RPM) [Liesiö, J., Mild, P., Salo, A., 2007. Preference programming for robust portfolio modeling and project selection. European Journal of Operational Research 181, 1488–1505] supports project portfolio selection in the presence of multiple evaluation criteria and incomplete information. In this paper, we extend RPM to account for project interdependencies, incomplet...

Managing a portfolio of risks

Managers and stakeholders concerned about all sorts of entities often face a complex mixture of threats originating from multiple sources. Traditional management approaches that deal with multiple decisions, such as project portfolio management and risk assessment, are focused on single sources of risk or integrate risks using simplified assumptions (e.g., simple addition). Current challenges –...

Collaborative design : managing task interdependencies and multiple perspectives

This paper focuses on two characteristics of collaborative design with respect to cooperative work: the importance of work interdependencies linked to the nature of design problems; and the fundamental function of design cooperative work arrangement which is the confrontation and combination of perspectives. These two intrinsic characteristics of the design work stress specific cooperative proc...

Managing Requirements Interdependencies in Agile Software Development: A Preliminary Result

Currently managing requirement interdependencies using Agile practices is relatively unexplored. This study explores the state of practice of managing requirements interdependencies in Agile software development through a survey. A total of 52 complete responses were obtained, with 50% of the respondents suggesting that they consider requirements interdependencies. The preliminary result indica...