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:
Initiatives in the companies aim to deliver values. For a portfolio, the value is delivered through a mix of components with similar strategic goals and objectives. Multiple components can contribute in the realization of the same organizational value. While managing the portfolio value, how do you depict the relationships between components in achieving value?
Your company has decided to invest in a revolutionary product that will make the delivery of online orders easier and will cut down the delivery time by no less than 35%. While measuring the value of the new component with relation to the market, which of the following should be used?
As a result of optimization, one of the components was deemed necessary to be terminated. One of the executive managers found about this and called you telling you that you should leave this component as it is of interest to her and she wants to see it finalized and that she will make resources available to it if needed. What should be your best course of action?
When it comes to managing the portfolio value, one of the junior portfolio managers came to you asking about the relation between cost-benefit analysis and the efficient frontier analysis. What should your answer to her be?
Chartering the portfolio is an important step towards the initiation of the endeavor. It authorizes the portfolio managers to use the resources and marks the first step towards the allocation of resources to the components upon their initiation. Which of the below can help you while developing the charter?
Each time a strategic change occurs, it requires a number of updates, and it includes the need to update the portfolio process assets including:
You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. Which of the following techniques uses historical data to determine if resource requirements have been consistently underestimated?
Due to multiple issues, there were changes in the reporting process in your portfolio; the meetings with their frequencies have been changed and this will also affect the reporting cycle times. In order to meet this new change you will update which of the following documents?
Assume you have determined the prioritization criteria your Portfolio Review Board will use, and you have reviewed the criteria with your key stakeholders to attain their buy off and occurrence. The purpose in establishing these criteria is to:
