Toward the development of a sustainable project portfolio selection framework for IT projects

Abstract

This research aims to develop a sustainable project portfolio selection (PPS) framework for the selection of IT projects. In this regard, after introducing the research aims, objectives and research questions, this paper presents the need of such a framework and summarises state of the art literature review on existing PPS frameworks. This has been done to carefully evaluate the current research state in this area. Based on these findings, this paper further discusses the methodological plan for the achievements of all defined research objectives. Moreover, it presents our recent progress towards formulating a project portfolio selection frameworks evaluation methodology to evaluate existing PPS frameworks and to aid in achieving the overall objectives of this research. This PPS evaluation methodology also includes the suggested ranking of the PPS frameworks evolution criteria defined by the project portfolio experts in Abu Dhabi Police, which is selected case study organisation in this research. Finally the paper is concluded with the intended future research direction.