Communication is one of the largest activities that the portfolio manager does along the portfolio lifecycle. As an experienced portfolio manager, you know that communication and information needs vary between portfolios, programs and projects. How do you define the difference in those three levels of Project Management?

You are in the toughest phase of the portfolio life cycle due to the governmental issues in your country.
Yesterday night, one of the key team members quit and left the country. You have included this in the portfolio risk register while planning the portfolio because you knew that this could happen and that this key resource has family in Canada and can leave if the situation gets bad. Following this, you activated the response plan, which is to initiate a new component that will cater for reaching the deliverable in another way.
However, an immediate approval is needed for initiation of this component or the end-of-month major deliverable will be delayed. To whom you should present the proposal for urgent approval?

Which processes are part of governance management?

You have been recently assigned to a critical portfolio in your company and wanted to start right away and decided to begin with aligning the strategic management of the portfolio to the organizational strategy and objectives. For this you will use

Portfolio balancing can be done in several different dimensions based on organizational preferences. When your software development company, which is CMMI Level 5 certified, began to focus on portfolio management four years ago, you started with a simplified ranking approach and now moved into using an automated, sophisticated weighted scoring software tool throughout the organization. In terms of portfolio balancing, it is appropriate to: