Portfolio Management

While product portfolio management is an easily understood theory, applying it to real world product development is more challenging in practice. A portfolio should balance innovation vs product enhancements, identify investments that align with your strategy, and be feasible to execute within budget and resources.

Typical challenges

• Slow growth in revenue and profits due to Underinvesting in new products versus line extensions
• Inability to select the best projects due to politics
• Too many projects and not enough resources
• Not killing projects soon enough

Zen and the Art of Portfolio Management Workshop

This one day workshop will review the basics of portfolio and resource management and help you create a plan that is appropriate for your organization's maturity.

Learning objectives

• Discuss the major challenges to successful portfolio and resource management
• Link portfolio management to strategic planning and decision analysis
• Learn how to balance a portfolio
• Review the basics of portfolio and resource management
• Review various methods and tools such as AHP, efficient frontier, and options theory
• Understand the Spiral Up Implementation Model
• Select appropriate portfolio methods, metrics and tools
• Develop a plan for implementing portfolio management
• Discuss how to select an appropriate portfolio software application