Every acquisition program contains risks. But what impact do these risks have on the entire portfolio of acquisition activities? What does risk at the Enterprise level really mean? For example, risk collectively could portend great danger to the acquisition manager’s overall portfolio which might be otherwise masked by traditional program performance and analysis. Alternatively, these risks als...

Product management in software product companies is complex due to the many intertwined information flows on releases, products and requirements, and the high number of different stakeholders that are involved. We propose the Software Product Management Workbench for operational support of requirements management, release planning, product roadmapping, and portfolio management. In this paper, w...

The development of a product portfolio is a strategic decision which is often complicated by the large number of competing products, product interactions and high uncertainties about how successful the products will be in the marketplace. These decisions are commonly supported either by financially oriented approaches (e.g., net present value) or more qualitative approaches (e.g., scoring model...

The concept of managing new product development projects as an explicit portfolio originates from the context of large organizations. However, the question as to whether explicit portfolio management is relevant for small organizations is rarely discussed. We conducted a qualitative multiple-case study of six small organizations (with 15–40 people) that developed software and provided related s...

In this paper, we discuss a simulation method that allows students to experience the many typical and often underlying forces of product management and design. Given the dynamic nature of strategy and product portfolio management, it is often difficult to convey the actions necessary to juggle multiple and sometimes conflicting constraints or opportunities within a business context. For the pas...

In R&D many disciplines focus on different aspects of managing the product life cycle. Generally, can be divided into technical and business aspects. Combining these two views, research areas beneficial in context productization. Productization links to concept structure relates modelling offering according a consistent structure, commercially technically. The goal this is identify how business...

This paper develops a continuous-time model in which a portfolio manager is hired by a management company. Based on past portfolio returns, all agents update their beliefs about the manager’s skills. In response, investors can move capital into or out of the mutual fund, the portfolio manager can alter the risk of the portfolio and the management company can replace the manager. We examine the ...