CHAPTER 6

IT Portfolio Analysis: Evaluation Techniques and Methods

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

—SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

The principles of portfolio management date back to money-lenders who conducted business thousands of years ago. Financial portfolio management is a methodology for structuring the best possible mix of investments in an asset portfolio and managing its performance to achieve specific investment goals. IT portfolio analysis shares many of the same ...

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