Which of the following is correct regarding its purpose and focus?
You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. The Portfolio Risk Management Plan is an important...
Assume your automotive company is new to formal portfolio management. It has had for years a strategic plan and tries to be first to market for new and improved features on its vehicles each model year. You were hired as the portfolio manager to provide a more disciplined approach for determining new products to pursue as well as existing ones that should be terminated. So far, you have set up an approach, established categories for the various components, and determined a method to rank and score new proposals for consideration. Now you are working to set up practices to follow to optimize the portfolio. In doing so, it is important to note that:
Assume your automotive company is new to formal portfolio management. It has had for years a strategic plan and tries to be first to market for new and improved features on its vehicles each model year. You were hired as the portfolio manager to provide a more disciplined approach for...
Which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Optimize Portfolio Process?
As a portfolio manager you visit and re-do the Optimize Portfolio process continuously . Which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Optimize Portfolio Process?A . Balance the portfolio for performance and value deliveryB . Make Governance DecisionsC . Create an up-to-date list of qualified portfolio...
Your organization, given the economic downturn in your country, decided to reduce its staff by 90% and outsource all operational activities including those of program and project managers and their teams. It has, however, retained the portfolio manager, and it has a Portfolio Review Board comprised of senior executives that meets monthly. Since outsourcing is the norm and not the exception, the manager of Procurement and Contracting is a major stakeholder.
Your organization, given the economic downturn in your country, decided to reduce its staff by 90% and outsource all operational activities including those of program and project managers and their teams. It has, however, retained the portfolio manager, and it has a Portfolio Review Board comprised of senior executives that...
You are the portfolio manager in a large organization including a diversity of stakeholders.
You are the portfolio manager in a large organization including a diversity of stakeholders. From the start, you knew the importance of correctly managing the stakeholders requirements and concerns and you grouped them in order toA . Group stakeholders as internal and externalB . Facilitate stakeholders identificationC . Group stakeholders...
What is part of this analysis?
Following a major organizational restructuring, new portfolios are currently being initiated. You have been assigned the position of portfolio manager on one of the major portfolios and are currently in strategic management. You are currently performing cost-benefit analysis . What is part of this analysis?A . Qualifies estimated costs and...
As you focus on managing the value pf the portfolio, you find that portfolio variance/alert reports are helpful.
As you focus on managing the value pf the portfolio, you find that portfolio variance/alert reports are helpful. Assume you have been using a 'traffic light' format as it is easy to prepare, but an objective is to:A . Add in blue to show completed componentsB . Show dependencies between...
Which of the following tools determine the effect of changing the portfolio?
You are managing a complex portfolio with high risk levels due to emerging technological breakthroughs and a short benefit window to market your product. You know that managing risk is key to success and you are coaching your team on the same. While planning for risk management, multiple investment choice...
What is your advice to her?
One of the junior portfolio managers learned that she needs to use the roadmap as an input to the portfolio management plan development. She does not understand why, and she came to you for advice . What is your advice to her?A . Roadmap contains the portfolio structure which is...
Assume you are co-owner of a small consulting firm. Previously, you worked as a managing partner in one of the larger consulting firms in your country that had a defined portfolio management process to determine key opportunities to pursue to focus not solely on proposal win ratio but to aggressively emphasize capture ratio.
Assume you are co-owner of a small consulting firm. Previously, you worked as a managing partner in one of the larger consulting firms in your country that had a defined portfolio management process to determine key opportunities to pursue to focus not solely on proposal win ratio but to aggressively...