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1 question in Portfolio Prioritisation.

Portfolio Prioritisation advanced

You are the architect in an annual portfolio review. Eight initiatives are funded for the year out of forty proposed; none of them is yours. Five of the eight need changes to the same entitlement component, which is owned by a three-person team that also absorbs unplanned support. What do you bring to that meeting that the product directors cannot, and how do you get enabling work funded when it has no business case of its own?

3 min answer portfoliodependenciesfundingsequencing