Portfolio Management
How the organization governs, prioritizes, and optimizes its portfolio of programs and projects — the decisions made before any delivery work starts.
Free assessment45 questions · 25–35 minutes
How mature is the machine you are about to run a transformation through?
Most transformation post-mortems name the programme. The honest answer is usually the delivery capability it was handed to. This scores that capability across portfolio governance, programme execution, and implementation — 45 questions, against five maturity levels.
3.03Level 3 · Defined
Portfolio Management
Program & Project
Implementation Delivery
A 3.03 average reads as healthy until you notice portfolio governance sitting at 2.4. That is the number that sets the ceiling for the other two.
What it measures
Three domains, because transformations fail in all three and get blamed on one
Each domain carries 15 questions and is scored on its own. The overall number is an average, and averages hide exactly the thing you need to see — which is why the domain scores are the output that matters.
Program & Project Management
How individual programs and projects are actually delivered across the core knowledge areas — scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and the people around them.
Implementation Delivery
How the technical and organizational sides of delivery actually land — process, change management, data, testing, cutover, and whether any of it sticks after go-live.
The assessment
45 questions. Half an hour. One honest maturity read.
Answer as things actually are rather than as they are meant to be — the report is only useful if the input is. Set aside the time: progress is held in the browser and is not saved to an account.
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Portfolio Management
How the organization governs, prioritizes, and optimizes its portfolio of programs and projects — the decisions made before any delivery work starts.
0 of 15 answered — answer all to continue.
The five levels
Maturity is a ladder, and skipping a rung is how programmes fail
Every question scores 1 to 5. Each domain averages its 15 answers, and the overall score averages all 45. That average rounds to one of five levels. Most enterprises land at 2 or 3 — which is a workable place to start from, and a bad place to pretend you are not.
- Level 5 · Optimizing
- Continuous improvement is the operating mode, not an initiative. The work is holding it while going faster.
- Level 4 · Managed
- Processes are measured and controlled against quantitative objectives. You have the data to move to prediction.
- Level 3 · Defined
- Practices are documented and applied as standards. The question is whether they change decisions early enough.
- Level 2 · Developing
- Characterized at project level but still reactive. Delivery depends on who is running it, not on the organization.
- Level 1 · Initial / Ad Hoc
- Unpredictable, poorly controlled, reactive. Recoverable — but a bad foundation to build a transformation on.
Questions
Before you start
Between 25 and 35 minutes. There are 45 questions across three domains — 15 each — and every question is a single-select. It is deliberately longer than a lead-magnet quiz: a maturity read that takes five minutes cannot tell you anything a five-minute read would not already have told you.
Three delivery domains. Portfolio Management covers governance, intake, prioritization, and resource capacity — the decisions made before delivery starts. Program & Project Management covers scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, vendors, and stakeholders. Implementation Delivery covers process, organizational change, data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and whether adoption actually holds after go-live.
Every question scores 1 to 5. Each domain is averaged across its 15 questions, and your overall score is the average across all 45, reported out of 5.00. That average rounds to one of five maturity levels: Initial, Developing, Defined, Managed, or Optimizing. The domain scores matter more than the overall number — a strong average with one weak domain is a more fragile position than an even middling one, because delivery fails at its weakest joint rather than its average.
Level 1 Initial — processes are unpredictable, poorly controlled, and reactive. Level 2 Developing — processes are characterized at project level but still largely reactive. Level 3 Defined — practices are documented and applied as organizational standards. Level 4 Managed — processes are measured and controlled against quantitative objectives. Level 5 Optimizing — continuous improvement is the operating mode rather than an initiative. Most enterprises land at 2 or 3, and that is a workable place to start from.
They answer different questions. The readiness assessment is a five-minute read on whether your AI foundations hold — data, governance, culture, and change capability. This one ignores AI foundations and measures the delivery machine itself: whether your organization can reliably run a portfolio, deliver programmes, and land implementations. Take the readiness assessment first if you are deciding whether to start. Take this one if you already know you are delivering and need to know how well.
People who can see across a portfolio rather than a single project — transformation directors, PMO leads, VPs of delivery, and C-suite sponsors. Nothing stops anyone else from taking it, but a good number of the questions ask about governance structures and organizational practice, so the results are less useful if you only have visibility into one programme.
Yes, for now. Answers are held in the browser while you work through it and are not saved to an account, so closing the tab loses your progress. Set aside half an hour rather than starting it between meetings.
An on-screen score for each domain and overall, plus a PDF report emailed to you. The report carries the diagnosis for your maturity level in each domain, the symptoms and obstacles that typically come with it, four sequenced actions with timeframes and expected outcomes, and a note on where AI realistically fits at your level rather than at a level you have not reached.
Yes. The assessment and the report are free. We ask for your name, email, and role so we can send the report — and, if you want it, occasional transformation guidance you can unsubscribe from at any time.
The three domains cut across all six AMIGA pillars rather than mapping one-to-one. Portfolio Management is largely Governance and Value; Program & Project spans Process, People, and Governance; Implementation Delivery pulls in Data, Technology, and People. Where a domain scores low, the framework is where the remediation detail lives.
Keep going
The assessment scores the machine. AMIGA is how you rebuild it.
Six pillars — People, Process, Technology, Value, Governance, and Data — and the operating model that connects the three domains you just scored.