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Portfolio and project management

Portfolio and project management

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Portfolio and project management

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- [Instructor] The next topic we're going to tackle is portfolio and project management. You've likely talked about projects before, so these are a series of tasks that work towards a common purpose, and they have a defined end state, whether that's an objective to achieve, whether that's a time period of execution, they are end-termed in nature. Versus a program, these are activities that continue indefinitely, which may encompass one or more projects. If they don't have a project, they likely have some sort of kind of, quote unquote, business-as-usual execution. And then a larger portfolio is a long-term program that's grouped with common characteristics, and the goal is to really optimize business value or create a greater degree of oversight under one accountable authority. So let's talk about examples here. I think a great example of this is something like identity and access management. So how are you managing the…

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