Product Portfolio Management: An Important Business Strategy

Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management

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...

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