Discussion Questions

1. In what ways, if any, would Traditional Project Management (TPM), APM, and xPM projects affect your project portfolio management process? Be specific.
2. What criteria (time, cost, value, and so on) must a sequence of activities meet in order to qualify as a project for the portfolio?
3. What types of data will you need in order to evaluate, prioritize, and select projects for the portfolio?
4. An APM Project Portfolio Management Process differs from the TPM Project Portfolio Management Process in that in the agile version a project could have a change of state for no reason other than a competing project has a higher likelihood of delivering greater business value. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of using an agile versus traditional process for managing the project portfolio?
5. Your company has recently implemented an agile portfolio management process. You are the portfolio manager and are constantly getting complaints about the number of projects that are postponed at each quarterly review only to be restarted at the next quarterly review. How do you respond?