When assessing a portfolio's level of risk, which organizational levels should a portfolio manager focus on for input?

Question

Options

• AProject teams, program teams, external stakeholders, and internal stakeholders
• BProject teams, program teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders
• CExecutive management, operations management, portfolio management, and program teams
• DCustomers, vendors, sponsors, and program teams

• A
  90% (47)
• B
  6% (3)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

A comprehensive portfolio risk assessment requires input from all levels of stakeholder involvement. Project teams and program teams provide ground-level execution risk data. Internal stakeholders offer organizational and operational risk perspectives. External stakeholders surface market, regulatory, and third-party risks. Option A covers this full spectrum. Option B replaces external stakeholders with vendors, which is too narrow and excludes customers, regulators, and other external parties. Option C focuses only on management levels, missing execution-level teams. Option D focuses on customers, vendors, and sponsors, omitting the execution teams who have direct visibility into technical and delivery risks.

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