• DocumentCode
    2619675
  • Title

    ODC portfolio management

  • Author

    Rai, Veerendra K. ; Vijayasaradhi, B. ; Subramanian, K. ; Umamaheswari, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5-8 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    97
  • Lastpage
    102
  • Abstract
    This paper reports benefits of Systems Thinking on a case study on project portfolio management in an Offshore Development Centre (ODC). This ODC had grown exponentially in the last few years and existing operating models were not scaling up to this growth. A set of consultants (authors of this paper) from the organization of Service Provider were commissioned to conduct an internal study to address this problem. Consultants used Systems Thinking approach to develop portfolio management framework for the ODC. Development of the framework, its deployment and results thereof are being reported in this paper.
  • Keywords
    business data processing; client-server systems; project management; software development management; ODC portfolio management; growth surge; offshore development centre; project portfolio management; service provider organization; 4D methodology; offshire development center; project portfolio management (PPM); systems thinking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems Conference, 2010 4th Annual IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5882-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SYSTEMS.2010.5482474
  • Filename
    5482474