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. A major risk has recently occurred and the risk owner came to you asking advise on how to report it. what would you advise her?
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. What you use to perform this?
It is critical in portfolio management to focus on 'doing the right work'. This means stakeholder expectations and effective management of these expectations are essential. The primary conduit between the component managers and the other portfolio stakeholders is the:
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?
With the increasing use of drywall, your company, which has been in the plaster business for over three generations, is finding it harder to maintain a share of the market and to achieve a positive return on its investments. Three years ago, the corporate executives implemented a portfolio process, and they serve as the Portfolio Governance Council. They meet monthly, and after each meeting, you prepare a report of their decisions. This report is:
