SELECTING A PROJECT PORTFOLIO

• US 20120029965A1
• Filed: 07/29/2010
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Steffen, Roger J., Spence, Susan, Ludwig, David Farrington, Peitz, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US12/846,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20120029965A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments relate to selecting a project portfolio. A processor may select a project portfolio based on a list of projects and lists of objectives. In one embodiment, a project portfolio is selected from the list of projects based on the degree to which each project portfolio fulfills the lists of objectives. The lists of objectives may be stakeholder objectives.

Claims

1. A computing system for selecting a project portfolio, comprising:

a storage to store;

a list of projects;

lists of objectives, wherein each list of objectives is associated with a stakeholder; and

a processor to select groups of projects from the list of projects based on the degree to which each selected group of projects meets the lists of objectives.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the processor further:

receives feedback related to the selected groups of projects, wherein the feedback is associated with a stakeholder; and

updates the selected groups of projects based on the feedback.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the received feedback comprises a ranking of the selected groups of projects.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the processor further associates a time period for execution with each of the projects within the selected group of projects.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein selecting groups of projects is further based on characteristics of the stakeholder associated with each list of objectives.

6. A method for selecting a project portfolio, comprising:

receiving, by a processor, lists of objectives, wherein each list of objectives is associated with a stakeholder;

receiving, by the processor, a list of projects;

selecting, by the processor, groups of projects from the list of projects based on the degree to which each selected group of projects meets the lists of objectives; and

outputting, by the processor, the selected groups of projects.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein selecting groups of projects is further based on characteristics of the stakeholder associated with each list of objectives.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving, by the processor, feedback related to the selected groups of projects, wherein the feedback is associated with one of the stakeholders;

revising, by the processor, the selected groups of projects based on the feedback; and

outputting, by the processor, the selected groups of projects.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback related to the selected groups of projects comprises a ranking of the groups of projects.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the feedback related to the selected groups of projects comprises an assessment of one of the selected groups of projects.

11. A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor for selecting a project portfolio, the machine-readable medium comprising instructions to:

access lists of objectives, wherein each list of objectives is related to a stakeholder;

access a list of projects;

choose portfolios of projects from the list of projects based on the degree to which each chosen portfolio of projects fulfills the lists of objectives; and

output the chosen portfolio of projects.

12. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein choosing portfolios of projects is further based on characteristics of the stakeholder related to each list of objectives.

13. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the objectives in each list of objectives are associated with a weight indicating their importance relative to the other objectives in the list and wherein choosing portfolios of projects is further based on the weight associated with each objective in the lists of objectives.

14. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising instructions to:

receive a response related to the chosen portfolio of projects, wherein the response is associated with one of the stakeholders;

update the chosen portfolio of projects based on the response; and

output the chosen portfolio of projects.

15. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the response related to the chosen portfolio of projects comprises a ranking of the chosen portfolio of projects.