program selection system

Yogi Berra is quoted as saying, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Effective management of a software portfolio is a challenge that many companies ignore, avoid or fail to follow through because it is too hard. Many approaches to portfolio management get so complex that decisions fail to get made. But what would “barely sufficient” portfolio management look like? In this hands-on tutorial we review some basic portfolio management guidelines and introduce a simulation game where participants make decisions about which investments a company makes.

Through the instruction and the simulation, participants will learn about product, project, and portfolio management issues such as business strategy, investment return, constraint management, technical and market uncertainty and project complexity in order to optimize overall return.