Governance and Portfolio Management

Overview

The Governance and Portfolio Management group focuses on methods, tools, and technologies that enable IT and software organizations to manage their organization as a business. In particular, we focus on activities that enable the following:

  • Governing activities in IT and software organizations optimized for multiple stakeholders' needs
  • Making fact-based decisions using practical analytical techniques

Research interests
Our research interests include models of governance; governance of software development, process, and work-product measurements; managing distributed and diverse development teams; Agile software development; IT governance; and application and service portfolio management.

Current Activities

  • Common governance model - we are developing a model that provides the basic construct for defining governance solutions across any type of governance domain.

  • Governance of development lifecycle platform - this activity focuses on defining the necessary building blocks for governing the activities performed in software development environments.

  • Application portfolio management - we are developing a practical approach and a tool for managing investments in applications as a portfolio and optimizing and aligning the portfolio to the maximum business benefit.

Publications

  • A. Yaeli and T. Klinger: Enacting Responsibility Assignment in Software Development Environments, First Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG), In conjunction with the 30th International Conference of Software Engineering, ICSE 2008.

  • Y. Dubinsky, A. Yaeli, Y. Feldman, G. Nechushtai: The 'Transition to Agile' Governance Lifecycle Scenario, short paper for 1st Agile Practices and Methods Conference, IBM Academy of Technology.

  • Y. Dubinsky, A. Yaeli, Y. Feldman: Enterprise in Transition: Governance Meets Agile, 1st Research-in-Progress Workshop on Agile Software Engineering, as part of Agile 2007 conference.

  • Y. Dubinsky, A. Yaeli: Software Development Governance in Distributed Environments, 1st Workshop on Measurement-based Cockpits for Distributed Software and Systems Engineering Projects (SOFTPIT), In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2007.

  • Y. Dubinsky, A. Yaeli, Y. Feldman, E. Zarpas, G. Nechustai: (chapter submitted, 2007) Governance of Software Development: The Transition to Agile Scenario, Information Technology Governance and Service Management Book.

Manager

Gil Nechushtai,