PMI PfMP - Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)
Establishing a portfolio management process starts with the development of the organizational portfolio management implementation plan. Which of the following helps while developing this plan?
You have just recommended the Portfolio Strategic Plan and Portfolio to the governance board for approval. The portfolio board members informed you that they did not find what they were looking for in the strategic plan and that it needs to be reworked. What should have been part of your Strategic Plan?
Due to strategic changes, one of the sub-portfolios in your portfolio has been decided to be canceled because it no longer meets the new market demands. What is your next step as a portfolio manager?
Developing the Portfolio Management Plan is a major step in a Portfolio and for a Portfolio Manager. You are currently developing this plan and having focus groups and brainstorming activities during which you are using mind-maps diagrams to organize the idea into logical groupings. Which of the below are you using?
Assume you are working to ensure your organization has a balanced portfolio. You have decided to use a bubble diagram and have set it up to show the components in terms of: ease of execution [difficult or easy] and component importance [high or low]. In such an approach, bubbles are used to:
You are the manager for a governmental portfolio aiming to restructure the roads in your country. Having a large number of stakeholders including the public, you know that you will be managing the communication closely and that the governance board and the stakeholders would want to check on the progress and performance frequently. For this you have developed a robust communication management plan. What is expected to be found in this plan?
As the Director of Human Resources, you were pleased to be asked to join the Portfolio Steering Committee in your organization as you feel you can contribute given the scarce subject matter experts as your company begins to enter a new market in children's toys rather than its main focus on video games and apps. Children's toys will represent a new portfolio in the company. However, while you will concentrate primarily on the resource allocation issue as you work to determine the types of projects and programs to pursue, it is important as well to recognize that:
One of your components' managers came to you stating that she cannot find a key stakeholder by email and if she cannot find him, a major decision will be delayed, thus affecting the entire portfolio. What should you, as a portfolio manager do?
Many people in your country are no longer eating food from cans because of the risk of botulism and eColi O1H747. Your low acid canned foods company is seeing its revenues decrease as a result, and it is updating its overall strategy for the company to diversify into other markets as well as to add an aggressive marketing campaign to ensure the public that its low acid canned foods are generally recognized as safe by the Food and Drug Administration. This means in terms of portfolio management:
Assume you are the portfolio manager for your HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) company, one of the largest in the world. Preparing for a meeting with the Portfolio Governance Committee, you have been reviewing the success of components that have been completed as well as the progress of current portfolio components. In many cases people who only purchased heating units in the northern part of the country, and people who purchased only air conditioners in the south, now are buying state-of the art products to easily switch as needed. You found the risks of climate change led to the need for these new energy efficient products and did so by: