Talk:Portfolio Management in a Startup

Josef: Thank you, I like the idea for your article. I feel that for your article, you can either follow the "case study" or the "method" structure (as you could frame it from either perspective). Make it clear what is the particular challenge of startups. Also, some people may disagree that startups have a broad portfolio, instead one could argue that they typically focus on a single idea. So just state/explain what "type" of startup you are considering.

Feedback

Reviewer 1, s121408

This review is done to the article accessed: 12:56 22/09/2015

Formal:

• I have found a chaotic position of plots and not proper size, but I have the impression you are still working on that.
• The size of the article is only 1300 words
• It is important to write the references.
• Punctuation mistakes: “failure, But”, B should not be capital letter.

Content:

• I see many interesting features of the article, but I miss some connexion, for instance I watched a video of Steve Jobs but no explanations of why it was there or your interpretation about what he said.
• There are chapters such as Project/Program Prioritisation and SCRUM in Product Development Startups which are not explained.
• I wonder how the selection and order of the topics is done. They are all very interesting but I do not see a clear link or flow in the article to jump from one topic to another.
• The chapter “Effects of not having a Portfolio Management strategy” is not targeted to Startups. Do not know if you want to leave like it as something general or to explain it from a Startup perspective with some examples or explanations
• It is very interesting to include the organization but there is no mention of portfolio management in organization even though the main topic is Portfolio Management in a Startup.
• I would include a bit more topics and concepts from the slides given in class.

==REVIEWER 2 - Jejenji==

• The topic is interesting because it describes actual issues that occur in Star-ups. In few years we could be managers of those start-ups so it’s directly correlated to “our future”.
• I find the intro a bit unclear and too general. From my point of view you should take into account all the paragraphs. The intro it’s a sort of sum up of the whole content.
• You should avoid the usage of suspension points in an academic article.
• To better underline definitions you could use italic
• Very clear and useful the part of organisational structure
• Steve Jobs speech is really interesting. Perhaps you should include a written part regarding the video otherwise it seems a bit disconnected.
• Absence of reference within the text
• Some paragraphs are still missing and getting the overall message is a bit hard
• Some figures aren’t explained. You should include an explanation of them, to have a better flow of your article.
• I can see into the brackets some comments about adding examples. That’s totally useful to improve the article.
• The paragraph “effects of not having a portfolio management strategy” seems a bit opposite of what you stated at the beginning such as it’s important to have PPM.

FORMAL ASPECTS

• It’s hard to say if the article follows the method structure. It’s partly unfinished. Overall I would say that the written parts are relevant to describe the Portfolio Management.
• Few grammar errors.
• Figures headings should be included in the text. Perhaps adding extra description of them within the text would be great.
• Formatted properly.
• Absence of conclusion

CONTENT ASPECTS

• It does relate to PPPM
• The length of the article is shorter than the expected 3000 words.
• The flow is a bit poor but it’s because some paragraphs are still missing.
• Reference materials are ok but they are not insert in the text.
• Absence of annotated bibliography
• To improve you article you should add examples and extra explanation. Through this personalisations your article will be easier to understand and more interesting.