You are the manager of a major portfolio with a critical strategic objective. You have just finalized the roadmap development and wanted to have a quick discussion on it with the team. One of your team members asks you your opinion on the relation between Portfolio roadmap and Strategic Objectives. What would your answer be?

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:

Moving from project management to program management and now being appointed as the first portfolio manager in your cyber warfare company, you know you always wondered what happened to the various reports you had to prepare, and the metrics you had to collect. You are working now to determine critical metrics for portfolio management and decided to involve as many people as possible through questionnaires and surveys. You also held some focus groups. The purpose is to:

Managing risk is key to the success of any initiative. Risk is considered to be inherent in any activity we do in project management and at any level. Risk is incorporated in all process groups as well. As a portfolio manager, how do you map the risk management elements to process groups?

Assume you work in new product development, and you believe you have identified a component that will be a breakthrough for the company. However, you performed a capacity analysis with the help of your EPMO to assess resource availability especially in certain skill sets. You learned that key computer scientists required by this component were in short supply, yet you still believe this component should be in the portfolio. To convince the Portfolio Review Board to consider it, you decide to use: