1. Describe what experiences you have had with programs and portfolios to date? What role did you play?
2. Please identify each of the two topics (one will be assigned – see below and you can select the topic for the second) as either a project, program, portfolio or operation and explain why and how you determined this.
- Darby – Build a new theme park
- Dawn – Sell a new line of themed Legos
- Benjamen DuFord – Deploy the next version of Internet Explorer companywide (100 employees)
- John – Develop new multiple lines of business (carpets, publishing, e-learning)
- Cyndy – Establish an organic farm
- Joshua – Create a musical instrument
- Benjamen Kendrick – Add on another wing to a hospital
- Alicia – Produce 3D televisions
- Melissa – Deploy multiple software releases
- Daniel – Manage cost improvement initiatives across the enterprise
Please select one:
- Release a new television series
- Put on a benefit concert for American Heart Association
- Design a new satelite
- Design a new steering wheel for a car
- Develop a new business strategy
- Develop useful assessories for various types of camping equipment
- Reorganize all the closets in your house
- Redesign the Project Management Masters’ program
- Sell a new XBox game
- Produce organic wine
- Build pre-designed track homes
- Manage a farm
- Manage wind, water and coal energy development
