A Contingency Approach on the Impact of Front-End Success on Project Portfolio Success
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Date
2016Metadata
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Abstract
The pre-project or ideation phase is often
disregarded in project portfolio management.
Senior managers put more emphasis
on later project stages, and researchers predominantly
investigate the front end from a
single project perspective. This study investigates
how and under which circumstances
the performance of the front end affects
project portfolio success. Using a sample
of 175 firms, we confirm a strong positive
relationship between front-end success and
project portfolio success. Results show that
this effect becomes stronger for larger project
portfolios, for portfolios with more interdependency
between projects and, finally,
for firms that have a strategic orientation
toward riskiness.
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This is the article as published by PMI