IT project portfolio management – Evaluating, selecting, and staffing IT projects

Abstract

In this chapter, the current state of research on IT project portfolio management is characterized and discussed. In contrast to the introduction into the foundations of IT governance in the previous chapter, the following overview is based on a structured literature search process instead of an unstructured review. The different approaches are due to the different nature of the two disciplines. While IT governance research is well-established in the IS literature and has already been surveyed in a number of structured literature reviews, the field of IT project portfolio management is relatively new and more specialized and, thus, has not been analyzed to the same extent as the IT governance domain.