PROJECT PORTFOLIO SELECTION COMPETENCES RESEARCH IN UNIVERSITIES OF LITHUANIA

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 385 - 394, 01.06.2011

Ruta čiutienė Evelina Meilienė Bronius Neverauskas

Abstract

As a result of the theoretical findings, the paper demonstrates that project portfolio selection is crucial project management problem. Successful Project Portfolio management requires specific competences. Every project of project portfolio must be evaluated according to the based criteria and parameters. Empirical study was based on framework matrix with four parameters of project portfolio selection and only two phases of project portfolio formation. The results of empirical study showed a different importance of competencies and their groups and their influence to project portfolio formation

Keywords

Project portfolio, Project portfolio management, Competences

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