Implementing Project Portfolio Management

Portfolio Resource Capacity and Capability Management

by Panos Chatzipanos

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

—Mahatma Gandhi

5.1. Overview

The objective of portfolio resource capability and capacity management is to determine the optimal balance between what the organization has the potential to do, “capability,” and what the organization can do now, ...