Exploring the Role of Un-Enacted Projects in IT Project Portfolio Management

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Buchwald, Arne ; Urbach, Nils:
Exploring the Role of Un-Enacted Projects in IT Project Portfolio Management.
In: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012), Orlando, Florida, USA, 16 - 19 December 2012. Volume 5. - Red Hook, NY : Curran , 2013 . - S. 3946-3955
ISBN 978-1-62748-604-0

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Abstract

From the IT governance point of view, one central project portfolio management task is to ensure that official projects draw upon assigned human resources. However, a common phenomenon is that resources thought to be available often turn out to be actually unavailable. Previous research indicates that numerous unofficial initiatives are a typical cause of this observation. These un-enacted projects are those projects that have not been officially evaluated but do exist although they are not known to a company’s project portfolio. The result is that unofficial initiatives compete for scarce resources. Despite these resource issues, previous research has barely investigated un-enacted projects. By building on four in-depth case studies, this exploratory study investigates the major drivers of the occurrence of un-enacted projects and their specific characteristics and found a great variety in respect of the type of un-enacted projects and the reasons for them being triggered in organizations