Assume your automotive company is new to formal portfolio management. It has had for years a strategic plan and tries to be first to market for new and improved features on its vehicles each model year. You were hired as the portfolio manager to provide a more disciplined approach for determining new products to pursue as well as existing ones that should be terminated. So far, you have set up an approach, established categories for the various components, and determined a method to rank and score new proposals for consideration. Now you are working to set up practices to follow to optimize the portfolio. In doing so, it is important to note that:

In your opinion as a portfolio manager, which of the following is considered one of the portfolio's concerns?

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. Where is this type of results normally found?

When developing the charter, you will use multiple inputs and documents of which the portfolio Strategic Plan is one. How is the strategic plan used in this case?

One of your component managers came to you to tell you about a risk affecting his component that will badly impact the component and might affect the portfolio. After assessment, the risk turned out to be of low probability with high impact. What do you do as a portfolio manager?