While Optimizing your portfolio, you need to present to the governance board how your components will be ranked and balanced in a quantifiable way. How will you do this?
Working previously in the financial industry and studying finance and risk in graduate school, you are familiar with Markowitz's Efficient Frontier theory. Now assume you are the portfolio manager for a state government agency. Your agency has a reputation of being risk adverse but given recent budget cuts, you have convinced your executive team it needs to pursue some new programs and projects to demonstrate its benefits to the state.
You decided to apply the Efficient Frontier concepts to show them the current state of its components in terms of risk and associated costs. You explained the portfolio is efficient if it has:
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. You are currently using it in the development of your charter. What is its purpose in this case?
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?
One of the major steps for a portfolio manager is to know which components qualify to be included in the mix of components that will achieve the strategic objectives sought by the portfolio. As a program manager, you will use a variety of methods to help you achieve this purpose. Which of the following are valid tools and techniques?
