Like a project, a program is considered an investment in a portfolio. Other types of investments are assets, applications, and products. You can indicate dependency relationships that exist between investments in a portfolio using the dependencies page of program properties.
A dependency can occur when a task in an investment requires be completed before a task in another investment can begin. Or, if one or more of the projects in a program require to be canceled if a certain application runs significantly over budget.
Dependency information is used when creating portfolio management scenarios. You can view dependency connections from the Efficient Frontier page within scenarios. The scenarios include data from the investments you identify on the dependencies page of program properties.
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