Recommended Guidelines for IT Project Portfolio Management Practices for The Case Companies

Abstract

This thesis was done for Projektiyhdistys (PRY) - the Finnish chapter of International Project Management Association (IPMA). As PRY believes that currently IT project portfolio practices leave room for improvement, this Thesis targets to advance IT project portfolio management practices in the selected case companies with recommendation how to improve.

The research was carried by interviewing and investigating five case companies how they perform IT project portfolio management and identifying their strengths and weaknesses in it. Once the weaknesses were identified, solutions for overcoming the most critical short-comings were investigated using best practice and relevant business literature. The study compiles its recommendations into set of practical IT project portfolio management guidelines, which were iterated multiple times together with PRY to provide the final outcome of the Thesis.