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title: "Portfolio Management"
sidebar_label: "Portfolio Management"
description: "How Sensei IQ supports strategic portfolio alignment, pipeline management, intake, and investment decisions."
last_updated: 2026-02-27
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# Portfolio Management

Sensei IQ gives portfolio managers, PMO leaders, and program managers a single place to manage the entire project pipeline — from idea to delivery — and connect that work back to strategic goals.

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## Intake & Innovation

Every project starts as a request. Sensei IQ's structured intake process ensures nothing slips through the cracks and every project is evaluated consistently before resources are committed.

- **Project intake** — Capture project requests with standardized forms, including business case information, resource estimates, and strategic alignment
- **Ideation** — Run challenge-based innovation campaigns and collect ideas from across the organization
- **Scoring & prioritization** — Apply configurable scoring criteria to rank projects objectively and prioritize investments
- **Resource demand forecasting** — See the resource implications of proposed work before approving it
- **Business case management** — Track the full business case lifecycle from proposal through approval

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## Portfolio Management

Once projects are approved and underway, portfolio managers need a clear view of health, delivery, and investment performance across the entire portfolio.

- **Portfolio views** — See all active projects in your portfolio with status, financials, and timeline in one place
- **Strategic alignment** — Trace each project back to the strategic themes and goals it supports
- **Investment decisions** — Use portfolio-level data to make prioritization and funding decisions with confidence
- **Portfolio timelines** — Gantt-style visualization of all projects across the portfolio
- **Cost breakdown** — Aggregate financial views across the portfolio, including planned vs. actual spend

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## Program Management

Programs bring together related projects that collectively deliver a larger outcome. Sensei IQ gives program managers the structure and visibility to manage the connections between projects.

- **Program setup** — Group projects into programs with a shared set of program-level attributes
- **Program overview** — Roll-up status across all projects in a program
- **Program timelines** — Timeline visualization of all projects within a program
- **Cross-project dependencies** — Understand how project schedules and resources interact across the program

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## Automated Reporting

All portfolio and program reporting is powered by embedded Power BI dashboards — no manual spreadsheet exports required.

| Report | What it shows |
|--------|--------------|
| Portfolio Overview | Health, status, and financials across all active projects |
| Program Overview | Roll-up status across projects within each program |
| Portfolio Timelines | Gantt view of all portfolio projects |
| Program Timelines | Gantt view of projects within each program |
| Cost Breakdown | Planned vs. actual cost across the portfolio |

Reports update automatically as data changes in Sensei IQ — giving stakeholders a live view at any point in time.

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## Strategy Alignment

Portfolio management in Sensei IQ is connected to the Strategy module, which tracks:

- **Strategic themes** — The high-level organizational priorities that guide investment decisions
- **Strategic goals** — Measurable outcomes linked to themes, tracked through KPIs
- **Benefits realization** — Structured tracking of the financial and non-financial benefits that projects deliver

This creates a traceable line from individual project delivery through to organizational strategy — the core promise of PPM done right.

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## Changelog
| Date | Change | Author |
|------|--------|--------|
| 2026-02-27 | Full content written from source materials | Claude Code |
| 2026-02-26 | Page created (stub) | Claude Code |