Agile Portfolio Planning

Prof Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is the Director of the Innovation Value Institute research centre and Professor of Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University. His research interests include PayTech,Information Management, Innovation, Cloud Computing, Service Science, Enterprise Architecture and Smart Cities and Smart Buildings. He collaborates with a range of Enterprises in relation to Innovation and IT Management. He is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail and is the Chair of Steering Committee Elite-S H2020 Marie Curie Project on ‘Future Leaders in ICT Standardisation for Europe’.

Markus has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. He is a member of the international programme committees and reviewer and associate editor of IS journals.

Dr Umut Sezen

Dr. Umut Sezen obtained his BEng and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering at the University of Warwick, UK in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Hacettepe University, Turkey and currently working as a Senior Research Fellow in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Dublin City University (DCU). Up to this date, he has supervised 19 MSc theses to completion, topics of which were changing optimisation, simulation, automation, digital signal processing and power electronics etc.

He has participated in 10 research projects, two of which as a project manager. In these projects, he actively worked on topics like portfolio planning optimisation, stochastic modelling, monitoring and prediction of model parameters, signal processing etc. He is one of the three founding team members who created the Tgi3D Photoscan (www.tgi3d.com) software which constructs 3D models from the given photographs and obtained a US patent on 3D modelling. Also, he produced 54 international publications, 13 and 41 of which were journal and conference publications respectively.

Esma Mine Yildiz

Esma Mine Yildiz completed a BSc degree in Physics Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) in 2014 and her MSc degree in Applied Informatics at the same university. She worked in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider company as a planning specialist and project manager. After that she started to work as a researcher and assistant project manager at National Electronics and Cryptology Research centre to support various research projects focused on national security devices. From the beginning of 2019 she started to work as a Research Assistant in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Dublin City University (DCU). Her research area is portfolio level planning and its practices.

Michael Hanley

Michael is involved in IVI’s academic education and professional training & certification programmes. Since 2011, IVI has trained more than 8000 professionals globally, helping organisations digitally transform using IVI’s Capability Maturity Framework. More recently he co-created the MSc in Digital Healthcare Transformation hosted in UL, and ReThink|ReDesign – Maynooth University’s SME digital transformation initiative, supported by Enterprise Ireland’s innovation voucher scheme. In early 2022 he successfully completed a pilot Future Workforce Skills Development Programme for a large public sector organisation. He created the course using an innovative approach he calls Design Thinking for Teaching & Development (DT4TD).

Michael has an MSc in Education & Technology, and he is a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Training and Development.

He will complete his Doctorate in Education Leadership in 2023. His doctoral thesis concerns the impact of digital transformation and disruptive innovation on Irish higher education institutions’ future strategy, business models, and value propositions.