A problem related to internal corruption has occurred in your company. The CEO has setup a new management team and had to do budget cuts until the situation is stabilized. Your portfolio is highly affected by this budget cut and you were obliged to cancel a few components. What is your best course of action in this case?
Assume at this point as the portfolio manager in your mattress company, you are activating portfolio components, updating portfolio reports, and documenting the decisions made at the recent Portfolio Governance Committee meeting as the company moves into new markets. You are therefore:
Different stakeholders will have different portfolio reporting requirements. Sponsors for example will have a great interest in:
Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. Risk is part of project, program and portfolio management and has a different exposure in each and every one. Multiple risks have already been spotted in your portfolio and you are now identifying, assessing and developing risk response plans for them, in addition to monitoring and controlling them. What are you looking for? You were finding this hard at first however you asked the help from a senior portfolio manager and he redirected you to use
Your goal as a portfolio manager is to develop a strong communications management plan to keep interested stakeholders informed about your progress in portfolio management. Although you have reached out to numerous stakeholders, you know other portfolio processes also can help in this process such as:
A portfolio manager needs to continuously balance the need and requirements with the available resources and needs to maintain a balanced portfolio and portfolio resources in order to optimize delivery. Capability and Capacity analysis is performed in 4 of the portfolio management processes and it serves a slightly different purpose in each and every one of them. When it relates to developing the performance management plan, what is the purpose of using this analysis?
A key role for portfolio management is to balance the use of resources following the need against the existing skill-set. One of the component managers told you that an important SME on his program is traveling and there is no replacement for her. This will cause a major delay in the program. What is your first step as a portfolio manager?
While managing portfolio value, you met with stakeholders and discussed how to address the strengths and weaknesses in order to ensure benefits are comprehensively and holistically taken into consideration. Which of the following tools and techniques are you performing?