Working as a portfolio manager in the Water Resources Department of the U.S. Geological Survey, you are following a scorecard approach to report progress to your executives on the components in your portfolio. You submit the scorecards monthly, and based on their results, your executives decide if a Portfolio Review Board meeting should be held. Your emphasis in these reports is to:
Correct Answer:
A
Assume your telecom company is time constrained and needs to be first to market with new smart phones with features that are different from those of the competition and also have the traditional features desired by your existing customers. The Portfolio Review Board meets weekly to assess performance and to consider new components. Lack of technical resources is a recurring issue. To make the case for acquiring new resources, you decided to assess capability and capacity. This approach is:
Correct Answer:
B
As a portfolio manager, you map the business value areas to each component in your portfolio in order to maintain alignment with the organizational strategy. What is the mechanism that will be used for tracking areas of measurement for assessing how the mix of portfolio components is performing?
Correct Answer:
B
Each time the Portfolio Governance Group meets the goal is to review the existing components and any that are proposed to ensure the portfolio has the best mix to attain strategic objectives. As the portfolio manager, you find these meetings, if facilitated accordingly, are effective decision-making sessions. However, you tend to have open issues after every meeting. These open issues:
Correct Answer:
C
As you prepare your communications management plan you realize that stakeholder requirements may change over time, and these changes then will need to be reflected in updates to the plan. As the plan defines the overall communication process not only for gathering information but also in determining recipients of it, it also:
Correct Answer:
A
