In an uncertain and competitive environment, product portfolio management (PPM) becomes more challenging for manufacturers to decide what to make and establish the most beneficial product portfolio. In this paper, a novel approach in PPM is proposed in which the environment uncertainty, competitors’ behavior and customer’s satisfaction are simultaneously considered as the most important criteri...

Product portfolio management is crucial to product-oriented software companies’ long-term success but is mostly overlooked by current software engineering research. This paper presents preliminary results from a multiple case study on the state-of-thepractice and improvement of product portfolio management processes in three small product-oriented software companies. Our findings suggest that i...

Portfolio management of new product development has been studied in the context of large companies, but its relevance for small software companies has not been discussed. We conducted a multiple case study of four small software companies. The companies did not practice portfolio management, and seemed to suffer from problems that in the literature are considered symptomatic of inadequate portf...

The paper presents modeling and analysis of product design and product portfolio management (PD–PM) domains interaction using an integrated simulation–optimization model. To represent the interactions, the product design phase is modeled as a discrete-scenario static system. The goal of this work is to develop a decision support framework that relies on product design–product portfolio manageme...

Overview: Effective portfolio management is vital to maximizing the value of business’ new product development (NPD) portfolio; it also one weakest facets NPD. Ongoing evaluation tends be backward looking and process focused, business cases are not updated with real time more reliable data. A dynamic approach solution, including use Productivity Index (PI). Building in multiple iterations get r...