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. For this, you are always on the lookout to optimize your portfolio. What can you use to start this process?

Your company's water treatment center serves three cities. Tests are conducted each day to see if the water is safe to drink. On Thursday, E coli were found in the water, but the water authority did not notify the citizens in the three cities. Instead, the citizens learned on Friday, the water was now safe to drink. The citizens are in an uproar, and your company is to blame. It is obvious one of the problems is the aging infrastructure and limited resources. To best optimize the portfolio, your CEO asked you to:

Due to multiple occurrences of risk realization, the CEO has asked you to re-assess the portfolio risks once again. Up to what level in the organization do you go when you need to assess risks?

As part of the portfolio management plan, you have the "Manage Strategic Change" and the "Change Control and Management". This is causing issues to one of your team's junior portfolio managers as she cannot understand the difference. In your opinion, what is the difference between both?

Assume you are creating a roadmap for your portfolio and will present it to key stakeholders and then to the Portfolio Review Board. You realize you will be adding additional detail to it, but you also believe its graphical format will be useful. In developing it, you decide to reference prioritization, dependencies, and organizational areas so you should consult the: