Use and maintain the portfolio
Integrate the portfolio into applications, conversations, and a lightweight evidence-maintenance routine.
Building Your Online Portfolio
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Use and maintain the portfolio.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing an application sharing matrix, case-study talk tracks, and recurring maintenance schedule.What this lesson is really solving.
Integrate the portfolio into applications, conversations, and a lightweight evidence-maintenance routine. This is lesson 6 because later decisions depend on an application sharing matrix, case-study talk tracks, and recurring maintenance schedule. A portfolio creates value when the right proof is delivered at the right decision point. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A portfolio creates value when the right proof is delivered at the right decision point.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Match one or two cases to each opportunity and write a sentence explaining why each is relevant.
- 2
Add deep links to applications, outreach, and interview follow-ups instead of sending only the homepage.
- 3
Prepare a three-minute walkthrough and deeper discussion for each case without memorizing a script.
- 4
Review monthly for broken links and quarterly for new proof, outdated claims, analytics, permissions, and target changes.
See the standard in context.
Leo sends the data-cleaning case for an operations role and the experiment case for a product role, each with one sentence tying it to the job. The learner saves an application sharing matrix, case-study talk tracks, and recurring maintenance schedule and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes an application sharing matrix, case-study talk tracks, and recurring maintenance schedule.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Treating publication as the finish and never guiding reviewers to the evidence most relevant to their decision.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: Every active opportunity has a deliberate portfolio link and you can discuss the linked work without overstating your role.
Your deliverable
An application sharing matrix, case-study talk tracks, and recurring maintenance schedule.
Watch for this
Treating publication as the finish and never guiding reviewers to the evidence most relevant to their decision.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
Every active opportunity has a deliberate portfolio link and you can discuss the linked work without overstating your role.
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