Agile Project Portfolio Management: A contribution to Company Development Competence

This paper will provide a preliminary introduction to the application of Agile Thinking in management of project portfolio and company development. At any point in time, companies have a crowd of development initiatives spread around the organisation and managed at different levels in the managerial hierarchy. They compete for resources and managerial attention, and they often take too long time - and some do not survive in the rapid changing context. Top man¬agers ask for speed, flexibility and effectiveness in the portfolio of development activities (projects). But which competencies are required? Practices observed from empirical studies will demonstrate application of agile elements and will form a basis for developing appropriate elements of a company’s development competencies.