Pooled, Sequential & Reciprocal dependence

Motivation An article on this topic already exists on the wiki. However, I believe I can improve/supplement this article on a number of points: - Elaborate on the application potential of the different types of dependencies. - Supplement the original theory, from James D. Thomson’s Organizations in Action, with today’s perspective on it (how the theory has evolved). - Take the theory from its original focus on project management and discuss its application potential on program and portfolio management levels.

The topic is highly relevant to our case, and I hope this can be used to write a better article as well as prove useful on the case work.

Annotated Bibliography

Lundberg, C.C. and Thompson, J.D. (1967) “Organizations in action.,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 12(2), p. 339. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2391555. - The original introduction of the Pooled, Sequential & Reciprocal dependence theory

Bilgin, G. et al. (2017) “Handling project dependencies in portfolio management,” Procedia Computer Science, 121, pp. 356–363. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.048. - Article on applying dependency management on a cross-project portfolio level