Managing Strategic Change is an integral part of any portfolio in order to remain aligned with the strategic objectives. Your portfolio has undergone a major strategic change and you are currently determining if, when, what, and how of implementing the change in order to re-align the portfolio. What are you currently doing?

A new project manager was given an assignment on one of the components in your portfolio. What will you do as a portfolio manager in order to align the project manager with the strategic direction and integrate him/her with the work in progress?

Multiple changes have been recommended and approved in your portfolio and the need for continuous optimization seems to never end. This is normal in a portfolio and optimizing the components mix and the use of resources is key to success. As a portfolio manager you will be re-visiting the Optimize Portfolio process countless times. Which of the following are considered outputs to this process?

Assume before you prepared your portfolio management plan for your company that you did some benchmarking and learned that if you used elicitation techniques it was useful in the portfolio development stage and before there were significant scope changes because of strategy changes to the portfolio. You decided to involve the Portfolio Review Board members, other key stakeholders, and some subject matter experts in this process and then decided to poll input from the group as a majority vote. This meant you were using:

Risk Management is integrated in all the other processes and process groups and is an integral recurrent activity throughout the portfolio life cycle. Which of the following is considered an external risk that can affect the portfolio?