Continuous Software Portfolio Performance Management

Paul van Vulpen*, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Slinger Jansen, Garm Lucassen

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    Abstract

    Product portfolio decision making is the process of coming to decisions regarding resource division along multiple software products. This process is part of portfolio management, and is an essential task in managing a software company. However, product portfolio decision making is an implicit process, and product managers are too occupied with tactical and operational decision making to execute strategic decisions regarding portfolio management. Academic research has not yet provided a model to adapt intuitive and opportunistic portfolio decision making to an explicit and data-driven cycle. The goal of this research is to make portfolio decision making explicit by modeling this process in the Dutch software industry. Case studies at 6 small to medium-size software companies in the Netherlands evaluate the initial Software Portfolio Decision Making (SPDM) model. We present the SPDM model after adaptation to the findings in the case studies. Using this model enables software companies to move from an intuitive decision making process towards data-driven explicit decision making.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSoftware Business - 9th International Conference, ICSOB 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, June 11-12, 2018, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Nature
    Pages75-89
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-04840-2
    ISBN (Print)978-3-030-04839-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 7 Dec 2018

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
    Volume336
    ISSN (Print)1865-1348
    ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

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