Which are benefits of assessing the impact of portfolio management? 1. It can help demonstrate a compelling case for investment in portfolio management 2. It helps in the on-going development of…

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Options

• A1, 2, 3
• B1, 2, 4
• C1, 3, 4
• D2, 3, 4

• A
  8% (3)
• B
  75% (30)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  15% (6)

Explanation

Option B (1, 2, 4) is correct because statements 1, 2, and 4 all describe benefits that arise specifically from the act of assessing portfolio management's impact - making the business case (1), driving continuous improvement (2), and leveraging the motivational power of measurement itself (4).

Statement 3 is the distractor. Managing the project development pipeline, dependencies, and constraints is a benefit of portfolio management itself, not of assessing its impact. The question is specifically about what you gain from the assessment/measurement activity - statement 3 describes operational portfolio work, not evaluation of it.

Options A, C, and D all include statement 3, which makes them incorrect for the same reason.

Memory tip: Ask yourself - "Does this benefit come from measuring/evaluating portfolio management, or from just doing it?" Statements 1, 2, and 4 only make sense in the context of measurement (you can't demonstrate a business case, improve practices, or apply "what gets measured gets done" without an assessment process). Statement 3 would exist whether or not you ever assessed anything, so it belongs in a different category.

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