Your organization, given the economic downturn in your country, decided to reduce its staff by 90% and outsource all operational activities including those of program and project managers and their teams. It has, however, retained the portfolio manager, and it has a Portfolio Review Board comprised of senior executives that meets monthly. Since outsourcing is the norm and not the exception, the manager of Procurement and Contracting is a major stakeholder. Her areas of interest are:
Correct Answer:
C
Portfolio managers tend to use the efficient frontier analysis as a modeling approach that gives decision makers the analytical tool to optimize portfolios given resource constraints such as risk. Consider that your company is risk-averse, on which side of the efficient frontier curve should the undertaken portfolios lie?
Correct Answer:
B
When managed correctly, the balanced scorecards can change the way an organization does business. Balanced scorecards keep focus on results. As a portfolio manager, you know that the purpose of using the balanced scorecards is
Correct Answer:
A
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. Metrics are used for measuring the performance. They need to be meaningful in order to be able to provide clear and logical targets, and in order to be able to be measured. Which guideline is used in order to develop meaningful measures?
Correct Answer:
B
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. You are currently assessing risk against multiple criteria and classifying them as part of developing the risk management plan. Which of the below reflects what you are doing?
Correct Answer:
D