As the portfolio manager, you must engage stakeholders and build and maintain outstanding relationships with them as much as possible. After identifying and classifying them, you want to make sure you provide the specific information each stakeholder group requires. Therefore you prepare:
You are the manager of a major portfolio with a variety of stakeholders and stakeholder groups. you know that managing communication is key to success and you stress on maintaining a high communication level. As part of the portfolio communication management, multiple documents are prepared in order to effectively manage communications. The Communication matrix is one of the prepared documents, what does it include?
Efficiency is highly regarded when managing a portfolio and spans all activities i.e. risk management, communication management, etc. A portfolio is considered efficient if it
Assume you are the corporate portfolio manager for your global organization. There is one portfolio at the corporate level, but other portfolios supporting business units and core areas of the company. One of these portfolios involves manufacturing, and its number one program in terms of priorities is to implement an enterprise resource planning system. Since it is the number one ranked program in this portfolio, it is of interest at the corporate level, and you and your team provide reports on its progress monthly. You can see that:
You are the manager for a governmental portfolio aiming to restructure the roads in your country. Having a tight schedule, a large number of stakeholders including the public, in addition to a strict budgeting framework, you know that you will be managing the performance closely and that the governance board and the stakeholders would want to check on the progress and performance frequently. For this you have developed a robust performance management plan. What is the expected result from developing this plan?
Along the course of the portfolio, you will be monitoring and controlling the portfolio a.long with the related stakeholders and governance bodies. This is done as part of your role in portfolio oversight. As a portfolio manager, which of the following, in your opinion, is the objective/purpose of the Provide Portfolio Oversight Process?
In identifying risks to then manage and control, as the portfolio manager you are consulting organizational process assets such as:
Assume you recently took a seminar on portfolio management, and after you returned, you made the business case for it to the President of your consulting firm, recognizing the need to improve the capture ratio of responses to Requests for Proposals. You have been asked to implement portfolio management and recognize that you need to develop orientation and training sessions on it so everyone in the firm realizes why it is essential to pursue. To do so, the best approach is to:
When it comes to change, one of your junior portfolio managers came to you requesting your help to deal with the overwhelming strategic changes. He wants your assistance in solving the issue of continuous changes in the organization's objectives. What should be your advice to him?
Assume you are working to prepare the low-level schedule and timelines for portfolio components. You want to make sure, as the portfolio manager, for your country's initiatives to promote an awareness of the importance of climate change, that each component then can be monitored and tracked to assess performance. To do so, you should:
