Question

Your company has recently implemented an agile portfolio management process. You are the portfolio manager and are constantly getting complaints about the number of projects that are postponed at each quarterly review only to be restarted at the next quarterly review. How do you respond?

Answer 1

Background
The meaning of "Agile" is rapid response.
in context of software development, Agile means rapid development of software.
first of all it would be better to understand the need of Agile methodology.
in any organization, softwares are expected to speedup the various business processes, and the objective of software is to make all the business operations quick and accurate.
In the field of computers, a lot of developments are taking place day by day. new technologies are comming frequently. it means if a software development company takes any project, the project should be completed as soon as possible because if project takes too much time, the business process of the client(customer) may have some changes(there may be changes in client's requirement).
it is naive to say that, if project is delayed, there is a possibility to experience more delay.
because if software development is delayed and meanwhile there is a change in client's requirements.then it will become very difficult to cope up with the situation.

the other disadvantage of slow development is that if during the development, client comes to know about some other new technology,client can lose the interest in the technology which is being used for the development of his/her(client's) software(project).

So there is a pressing need to develop and implement the software as soon as possible.
the solution is "Agile Development".

Answer
Being a manager of agile portfolio management, if some one is constantly getting complaints about the number of projects that are postponed at each quarterly review only to be restarted at the next quarterly review.

The portfolio manager should focus on following points.

The first priority of portfolio manager should be to expedite the process of software development and implementation.
otherwise there are chances to lose the business(for the software development company), because the client will get unsatisfied.

a) So, agile portfolio manager should find the reasons behind the delay.
b)Increase the number of employees (if needed).
c)arrange meetings with client's very frequently(as per the client's requirement)to understand the changing requirement of the client.
d)rapid responses to client's changing requirements.
e)instead of implementing software in a single attempt,consider the module wise implementation.
f)instead of testing the software in a single attempt, development and testing should be performed concurrently.
it means develop and test, develop and test, till the completion and implementation of the software(project)
g)Apply scrum framework.
have a team of dadicated professionals where skill,decision, and opinion of any team member can be used for the success of software(project).no matter who is boss and who is subordinate.