One of your team members who is particularly interested in becoming a portfolio manager has asked you what is the relation between the Portfolio roadmap and the Programs/Projects roadmaps? What should be your answer to him?

In a portfolio you have a continuous interaction between the portfolio and its components. The approach is top down when it comes to offering guidelines and approaches and becomes bottom up when the components report status and progress to the portfolio. What is the relation between the portfolio and portfolio components when it comes to defining the performance measures and targets (metrics)?

Assume your airline just merged with a competitor, making it the largest in the country. Your company has a defined portfolio management process in place, which is considered effective by your executives. The other airline uses a more informal approach. Executives from both airlines now have different philosophies concerning new work to be pursued to be the leading airline in the country. In terms of the Authorize Portfolio process, this means:

Assume as the portfolio manager you have conducted a stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, and a readiness analysis as your cereal company is now entering the ice cream market. A team was formed and located off site to determine whether this market was one in which your company could compete, and its recommendation to do so was accepted by the Portfolio Review Board. Now you need to:

You are a portfolio manager for a company with volatile market conditions and continuous strategic changes.
It is always important for you to use methods such as simu-lation techniques, flowcharts and decision trees to be able to balance the portfolio with the actual needs. Which of the following tools and techniques you are using in this case?