Think about the organization you work for, one with which you are familiar, or one that is fictitious. Define one major strategic goal of the organization. Define at least two projects that would be candidates for inclusion in a project portfolio.

• Briefly describe the organizational goal and the candidate projects.
• Explain how you would apply the funnel and filter process to evaluate and select the projects.
• Explain how you would apply the phase-gates process to evaluate and select the projects.
• What specific criteria would you use to make the go/no go decision for each approach? Are they the same? Are they different? Explain.
• Which method would you recommend? Why?