Managing a Portfolio of Product Development Projects under Resource Constraints

Decision Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 333-372

  Browning, Tyson R ^a   Yassine, Ali A ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Multiproject scheduling; Portfolio management; Priority rules; Product development; Project management; Resource constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941703247     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/deci.12172     Document Type: Article

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