You're determining various possibilities of resource allocations and the impact on component schedules. You also notice what would happen if human, financial, or equipment funding was increased or decreased or if constrained resources were not available as scheduled. What process are you performing?

Assume you are managing the corporate portfolio for your company noted for many products primarily focused on farm equipment. Recently it has diversified into other markets especially with the economic downturn in the country. While many of the traditional products are in the portfolio as new features are added to enhance customer satisfaction, one of the new product lines is a high-profile program that is ranked number five in the corporate portfolio. As the portfolio manager, you know this program has several interdependencies with other projects and programs, and recently this high-ranked program has experienced difficulties as needed technology is not available externally, and internal staff lacks the needed competencies to develop it. Its termination will be discussed at Friday's Portfolio Board meeting. You plan to discuss these interdependencies as part of your responsibilities in:

Consider you have the following efficient frontier graph with multiple portfolios on it. Which portfolio do you choose?
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Portfolios include a lot of work and as a portfolio manager you need to keep an eye on the value realization while maintaining the strategic alignment. You are currently aggregating value delivered by the portfolio components. What outputs do you expect to get out of this?

Which type of analysis is most appropriate for a portfolio manager to use when optimizing a portfolio with reported information as an input?