You are managing a large construction portfolio. Recently, and due to budget cuts, you have been having resources issues on multiple initiatives and has been struggling with maintaining a healthy resource allocations. You are currently analyzing the capability and capacity for scarce machinery resources shared across three major programs in the portfolio. What are you currently applying?
While defining the portfolio, a portfolio manager does a preliminary comparison of all inventoried portfolio components against the portfolio component definition. For this, the descriptors of each portfolio component are used in order to compare it to other components. Which of the following is not a component key descriptors?
You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. What you use to perform this?
You have been asked to manage a major portfolio in order to salvage the company and and re-align it with the strategic objectives and goals. You decided to develop the strategic documents and are currently developing the charter. As a portfolio manager, which of the following would be your answer when asked of the purpose for the development of portfolio charter?
Your health insurance company has set up its portfolio into five different categories: research and development, IT, Medicare, government health insurance, and non-government health insurance. Funding is allocated yearly to each of these six categories. As the portfolio manager at the enterprise level, you:
You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. What is the expected outcome from managing supply and demand?
During the portfolio lifecycle, components will be authorized, initiated, executed and closed accordingly. For authorizing the portfolio, as a program manager you will use which of the Which of the following tools and techniques?
Your online ordering company wants to add a component to its portfolio that its sponsor believes will outdistance the competition, but it has risks and also will be subject to regulatory approval. The purpose is to use parachutes to deliver the merchandise ordered through small helicopters so the recipients receive their orders within three hours of the on line purchase. As the portfolio manager you recognize this component is a major change and will require resources if it is approved. You are now performing change management using a change structure that:
ecause your company's Portfolio Review Board consists of the Directors of its five business units and is chaired by the CEO, the meetings tend to be contentious as there is limited funding available to authorize all the proposed programs and projects. Dissension also is the norm if resources are reallocated from one business unit to another. As a result, the CEO:
While performing the manage supply and demand process, one of your sub-portfolio managers came to you asking advice on how to analyze intangible assets such as resources knowledge or skills based on the metrics defined. What should be your advice to him?
