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Project Management: Achieving

Competitive Advantage
Fifth Edition, Global Edition

Chapter 3
Project Selection and
Portfolio Management

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Learning Objectives
3.1 Explain six criteria for a useful project
selection/screening model.
3.2 Understand how to employ a variety of screening and
selection models to select projects.

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Project Selection
Screening models help managers pick winners from a pool
of projects. Screening models are numeric or nonnumeric
and should have:
• Realism
• Capability
• Flexibility
• Ease of use
• Cost effectiveness
• Comparability
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Approaches to Project Screening
• Checklist model
• Simplified scoring models
• Analytic hierarchy process
• Profile models

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Checklist Model
A checklist is a list of criteria applied to possible projects.
• Requires agreement on criteria
• Assumes all criteria are equally important

Checklists are valuable for recording opinions and


stimulating discussion.

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Simplified Scoring Models
Each project receives a score that is the weighted sum of
its grade on a list of criteria.
Scoring models require:
• agreement on criteria
• agreement on weights for criteria
• a score assigned for each criteria

Score   (Weight  Score)

Relative scores can be misleading!

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Analytic Hierarchy Process
The AHP is a four step process:
1. Construct a hierarchy of criteria and subcriteria.
2. ​Allocate weights to criteria.
3. Assign numerical values to evaluation dimensions.
4. D
​ etermine scores by summing the products of numeric
evaluations and weights.
Unlike the simple scoring model, these scores can be
compared!

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Figure 3.1 Sample AHP with Rankings for
Salient Selection Criteria

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Figure 3.4 Profile Model

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Project Portfolio Management
The systematic process of selecting, supporting, and
managing the firm’s collection of projects.
Portfolio management objectives and initiatives require:
• decision making
• prioritization
• review
• realignment
• reprioritization of a firm’s projects

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The Portfolio Selection Process
The portfolio selection process is an integrated framework of
interrelated steps and activities.
• Preprocess Phase
– Methodology of selection and strategy
• Process Phase
– Prescreening, individual project analysis, screening,
portfolio selection, and portfolio adjustment
• Postprocess Phase
– Project development, project evaluation, and portfolio
completion

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Figure 3.8 Project Portfolio Selection
Process

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Developing a Proactive Portfolio
The project portfolio matrix classifies projects into four
types according to commercial potential and technical
feasibility:
• Bread and butter
• Pearls
• Oysters
• White elephant

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Figure 3.9 Project Portfolio Matrix

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Keys to Successful Project Portfolio
Management
• Flexible structure and freedom of communication
• Low-cost environmental scanning
• Time-paced transition

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Problems in Implementing Portfolio
Management
• Conservative technical communities
• Out-of-sync projects and portfolios
• Unpromising projects
• Scarce resources

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