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Abstract

Projects are increasingly initiated by organisations across Australia in alignment with the corporate strategies. This paper investigates and analyses the application of PPM in Australia by conducting a questionnaire survey with senior project, program and portfolio managers across Australia. The results suggested improvement in decision making, maximizing resource usage, alignment with business strategy and organisational risk reduction are the most common benefits found when implementing PPM. On the other hand, internal politics and culture, lacking organisational management support, and disagreement on a common project prioritization approach are the main barriers impeding the application of PPM.

8. Conclusions

The investigation into the project portfolio management (PPM) practices in the key Australian sectors conducted in this study revealed different portfolio sizes from eight key sectors in Australia. However, this study included only subjective perceptions of PPM benefits and barriers in association with the context of success factors. The study did not intend to provide an in-depth analysis into how PPM practices have been implemented in the studied sectors. This study showed that some sectors such as banking, finance and insurance, information technology and telecommunications, the sizes of portfolio can be diverse. In others e.g. construction an engineering, energy production and distribution, and transport and logistics, the sizes of portfolio remained specific. Regardless the sizes of the organizational portfolio, common PPM practices were urged for exploration. One of the common PPM practices was to have PPM managers assigned to group projects and facilitate effective management to meet strategic business objectives. This study found a connect between PPM and having project management offices (PMO) to support both project and portfolio implementation. Further examination was conducted further to identify benefits of PPM and barriers that impeded the PPM practices. It was discovered that the key benefits of PPM practices were related to alignment to business strategies, improvement in decision making, maximizing resource usage and organizational risk management while the key barriers to the PPM practices were found to be internal politics and change resistance culture, disagreement on a common project prioritization method as well as lacking organizational management support. The study demonstrated the relationships between benefits and barriers of PPM and found moderate linkages between the key project success criteria and PPM’s benefits and barriers. Future research and industry professional can benefit from this research by developing PPM benefits management so that the required benefits can be maintained or enhanced. On the other hand, it is important that barriers of PPM especially the barriers preventing projects from success must be minimized or mitigated.