Issue №1164 · portfolio · advanced

Every project is strategic. Is the portfolio?

In 200 words, describe a portfolio where every project was individually on-strategy but the portfolio in aggregate wasn't. Show what the assessment would look like and the harder conversation it forces.

Writing prompt · 200 words · Graded across structure, depth, clarity, judgment


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principle

Strategic alignment is a portfolio property; individual projects can be on-strategy and the portfolio still incoherent.