Title :
ODC portfolio management
Author :
Rai, Veerendra K. ; Vijayasaradhi, B. ; Subramanian, K. ; Umamaheswari, S.
Author_Institution :
Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Conference, 2010 4th Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5882-0
DOI :
10.1109/SYSTEMS.2010.5482474