291Product Portfolio Management
B. Rigor of analysis. A common statement showing the value of SDF team contributions is that
“. . . their participation in our projects enhanced our project selection capabilities by bringing rigor
in the process.” How did they do it? They did it by
1. Having structured methods to evaluate and forecast for different PPM projects and using
reason, prior project experiences, and best practices.
2. Challenging assumptions, data, criteria, scenarios, forecasts, and their implications and
getting project team support.
3. Performing sanity checks in every stage and grounding for decisions in each gate.
4. Explaining the results of analyses and ndings of the forecasting due diligence throughout
the process.
5. Engagi ...