You are in the process of planning the portfolio for a major client and wanted to put an extra effort on planning for managing the performance as the portfolio has a lot of technical aspects and correct performance management is key to success. What tools and techniques can you use for this purpose?
Over the years, your organization has grown significantly as it has entered new markets while maintaining its presence in its traditional product line of security systems. The company now has eight different business units rather than three, which was the case only two years ago, and it set up funding originally such that it was only allocated to one business unit and could not be transferred to others. At the recently held Portfolio Oversight Committee meeting, five business units did not add components, but some were completed. The other three added a number of programs and projects, which were authorized. Now funding for these new components is an issue. This means:
Based on the data in the following table, your organization should pursue which component:
As you prepare a list of possible components for your railroad to consider since most of its programs and projects are large and complex, your management team has suggested in your analysis of which components to pursue that you conduct statistical simulations of budgets, schedules, and resource allocations. You therefore decide to use:
Along your portfolio lifecycle, you have been conducting multiple review meetings to ensure continuation from one phase to another and to ensure the alignment and value delivery, in addition to communicating decisions and valuable information to the related stakeholders. Changes to the approach of portfolio governance may be a result of review meetings. Which of the following options include updates to the governance model?
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?
You are managing a large portfolio and know that you will need to constantly show the progress and status of the portfolio in meeting. For this you have developed a robust roadmap using BI tools. The portfolio roadmap is an important document used throughout the portfolio life cycle; when it comes to developing the portfolio communication management plan, which of the following options is correct
You have been asked to be the manager for a governmental portfolio, and your starting point should be tendering a strategic plan to the board for validation and approval for continuation. Which documents/artifacts do you have debuting the portfolio that you can use to develop the strategic plan?
Your State Governor is fiscally conservative and has limited significantly the financial resources to be provided to each University in the eight Universities in the State's system. Recognizing your University is going to have a 55% reduction in its budget, your Chancellor is re-evaluating all the work that is under way to see how much it can do with fewer resources. Every department will have layoffs at all levels. However, the University does have a portfolio management process in place, which people support. This means for effective portfolio management:
After the second shutdown of the Government, your Agency Administrator realized that some essential programs had to continue even during the shutdown, some existing work along with some programs and projects in the pipeline perhaps were not needed, and resources may require reallocation. This example shows the:
