Portfolio Risk Management Flashcards
Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan Inputs?
- Portfolio management plan
- Portfolio process assets
- Organization process assets
- Enterprise environmental factors
Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan T&Ts?
- Weighted ranking and scoring techniques
- Graphical analytical methods
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan Outputs?
- Portfolio management plan updates
- Portfolio process assets updates
- Organizational process assets updates
Manage Portfolio Risks Inputs?
- Portfolio
- Portfolio management plan
- Portfolio reports
- Portfolio process assets
- Organizational process assets
- Enterprise environmental factors
Manage Portfolio Risks T&Ts?
- Weighted ranking and scoring techniques
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
Manage Portfolio Risks Outputs?
- Portfolio management plan updates
- Portfolio reports
- Portfolio process assets updates
- Organizational process assets updates
Why is Portfolio Management Plan an Input of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because
- It provides guidance regarding governance model, performance management, communication, and stakeholder engagement for developing the risk management plan
- It may define roles and responsibilities for conducting risk management, budgets, risk management activities schedule, risk categories, definition of probability and impact, and stakeholder risk tolerances
Why is Portfolio Process Assets an Input of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because it provides
- List of portfolio components
- Portfolio component selection criteria
- Prioritization algorithms
- Portfolio risk register
- Portfolio issue register
- Portfolio performance matrices
- Portfolio resources
- Portfolio budget
- Historic files, actual data, lessons learned
Why is Organizational Process Assets an Input of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because it provides
- Vision and mission statements,
- Organizational strategy and objectives,
- Organizational risk tolerance
- Lessons learned
Why is Enterprise Environmental Factors an Input of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because
- It can affect the risk management plan: organization culture and structure, infrastructure, OPM, legal and regulatory considerations, industry requirements, and market conditions.
- It may provide relevant information for the risk management plan: commercial databases, academic studies, market research, and benchmarking
How is the T&T of Weighted Rankings and Scoring Techniques used in Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
- To assess the risks in multiple portfolios and the overall structure of the portfolios
- To identify risks that are critical to the organization’s success
- To help preparing high-level plans for conducting the risk management activities
How is the T&T of Graphical Analytical Methods used in Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
- To measure risk are defined (probability assessments & impact assessment)
- To visualize and quantify which risks are more critical and require more attention.
How is the T&T of Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis used in Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
- Analyzing trends
- Balancing the portfolio
- Managing investment choices
Why is Portfolio Management Plan Updates an Output of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because Portfolio Risk Management Plan is a subsidiary plan of the portfolio management plan
Why is Portfolio Process Assets Updates an Output of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because it may lead to the update of portfolio process assets, such as portfolio funding
Why is Organizational Process Assets Updates an Output of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
Because the portfolio manager may have recommendations for the update of organizational process assets, such as risk checklists, new risk categories, or subcategories
Portfolio Risk Management Plan components?
- Methodology
- Roles and responsibilities
- Risk measures
- Frequency
- Risk categories
Why is Portfolio an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
- Portfolio risks are identified for each of the authorized portfolio components, as well as for risk events that may affect more than one portfolio components
- Portfolio component dependencies such as logical, logistical, and benefits realization dependencies are also mapped analyzing the portfolio
Why is Portfolio Management Plan an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because It provides
- structure and guidance for performing portfolio risk identification, including roles and responsibilities, guidelines on use of tools
- details of the time and budget allocated to portfolio risk management.
Why is Portfolio Reports an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because Portfolio reports, in general, and portfolio performance reports, specifically, are important indicators for managing risks (performance of a portfolio may introduce new risks while mitigation of risks could lead to better performance)
Why is Portfolio Process Assets an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because
- It include the portfolio-related knowledge bases, such as lessons learned and historical information, which may help in managing risks.
- It provides templates used for risk management
Why is Organizational Process Assets an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because they may be used
- vision and mission
- strategy and objectives
- The values
Why is Enterprise Environmental Factors an Input of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because they may be useful in identifying risks: commercial databases, academic studies, benchmarking, or other industry studies
Portfolio Risk Register components?
- List of identified risks
- Risk owner
- List of potential responses
- Probability Impact Assessment
- Risk triggers
- Updated risk categories
How is the T&T of Weighted Ranking and Scoring Techniques used in Manage Portfolio Risks?
To evaluate the existing risks and identify whether any new risks have arisen during recurring governance meetings
* meetings dedicated to reviewing risks
* meetings where the review of key risks is an agenda item
How are the T&T of Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis used in Manage Portfolio Risks?
- To better understand the interdependencies, importance, timing, and confidence limits
- To determine deviations from the baseline, which may indicate the potential impact of threats or opportunities
- To forecast the degree of success in achieving the portfolio scope
- To evaluate the effectiveness of earlier risk response actions (Trends analysis)
- To help considering risk response strategies for each risk; making decisions to choose the most appropriate response strategy or mix of strategies, developing specific actions to implement those decisions, assessing the potential result of these actions with respect to the success criteria of the portfolio
Why is Portfolio Management Plan Updates an Output of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because the risk response plans are developed and accepted that results in the portfolio budget may have to be increased to cover preventive actions or to allow for contingency reserves, schedule, and resources (the portfolio management plan is updated as response activities are formally approved to ensure that the agreed-upon actions are implemented and monitored)
Why is Portfolio Reports an Output of Manage Portfolio Risks?
To help respond to risks, and issues and support decision-making
- Risk reports, including risk responses and analysis
- The top portfolio risks in the risk register (risk component chart - a grouping of risks by category and by component)
- Governance recommendations (include portfolio risk status and responses): new risks, new status, new responses or new actions planned, or recommendations for changes to portfolio components based on risks
- Portfolio issues in the issue register after analysis is completed for those risks that were realized and include the response actions that will be taken
Why is Portfolio Process Asset Updates an Output of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because
- It may need to update the portfolio risk register, the portfolio issues register, and other documents
- The portfolio component lists will need to be updated as Governance recommendations for changes to portfolio components based on risks are accepted
Why is Organizational Process Asset Updates an Output of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Because Organizational process assets may be updated: the risk assessment for the organization
What is the Goal of Portfolio Risk Management?
- Capitalizing on the potential opportunities
- Mitigating those events, activities, or circumstances which can adversely impact the portfolio
What is the Objective of Portfolio Risk Management?
- To accept the right amount of risk commensurate with the anticipated reward to deliver the optimum outcomes for the organization in the short, medium, and longer-term
- To increase the probability and impact of positive events and to decrease the probability and impact of events adverse to the value, the strategic fitness of the portfolio, and the balance of the portfolio
Focus of Portfolio Risk Management?
- Maximizing the financial value of the portfolio
- Tailoring the fit of the portfolio to the organizational strategy and objectives
- Determining how to balance the programs and projects within the portfolio given the organization’s capacities and capabilities
Purpose of Develop Portfolio Risk Management Plan?
- Identification of portfolio risks, portfolio risk owners, risk tolerance
- Creation of risk management processes
Purpose of Manage Portfolio Risks?
Executing the portfolio risk management plan
- assessing risks
- responding to risks
- monitoring risks
Type of sources that risks arise?
External and Internal
Examples of external risk sources?
- competitors, the competitive market, the financial market
- political events, legal requirements, regulatory requirements
- natural events, environmental concerns
- technological advances, and globalization pressures
Examples of internal risk sources?
- Bankruptcy, corruption, lack of integrity
- Shifting priorities, funding reallocation, corporate/organizational realignments
- Management decisions,
- Integrated management systems
- Excessive number of concurrent projects
- Dependency on external participants whose training is highly specialized (either a positive or negative risk)