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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objective and benefits. It involves aligning multiple projects to achieve the program goals and allows for optimized or integrated cost - schedule - and effort.






2. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.






3. Program Setup






4. Goes from Program to the components during the early phases of initiating and planning - and then from the components to the program during the later phases of planning and in the executing - monitoring and controlling - and closing phases.






5. Program is ended by ________






6. Review status of benefits with stakeholders - Disband the program organization - Disband the program team - Dismantle the infrastructure and ensure arrangements are in place for appropriate redeployment of all physical resources - Provide customer su






7. Purpose is to progressively elaborate the program charter and develop the foundation for the program by establishing an infrastructure and building a detailed "road map" that provides direction on how the program will be managed and defines its key d






8. Second phase of benefits management






9. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






10. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control






11. Third lifecycle phase






12. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.






13. Vision and key objectives for success criteria - Expected outcomes and benefits - Program assumptions and constraints - High-level program plan - Known risks and issues - Identifications of suitable business change managers with the ability to influe






14. Primary objective is to develop in greater detail how a program can be structured and managed to deliver the desired outcomes that were identified in the program mandate.






15. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects






16. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.






17. Infrastructure (existing facilities and equipment) - Existing human resources - personnel administration (staffing/retention policies - etc.) - company work authorization systems - marketplace conditions - - stakeholder risk tolerances - political c






18. Delivery of Program Benefits






19. Third phase of benefits management






20. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






21. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






22. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






23. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






24. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.






25. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






26. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






27. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.






28. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Multiple related projects that are initiated during the program's life cycle and are managed in a coordinated fashi






29. ___________ when all compenents within the program have successfully produced their deliverable and have been incorporated into the final product; and that procud has been delivered or tranistioned into operations.






30. Management oversight of a program






31. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






32. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






33. End result and expectations - Timeline for program benefit realization - Program budget - Risks and issues - Dependencies - assumptions - constraints - Management of the program and components - Other required services - Program






34. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






35. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.






36. First phase of benefits management






37. Understanding the strategic benefits of the program - Developing a plan to initiate the program - Defining the program objectives and their alignment with the organizational goals - Developing a high level business case demonstrating an understanding






38. First lifecycle phase






39. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.






40. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.






41. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






42. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






43. Pre-Program Preparations






44. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.






45. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






46. Purpose is to initiate the component projects and manage the development of the program benefits - which were identified during the initial phases. Ends when the planned benefits of the program are achieved - delivered and accepted or a decision is m






47. Also known as Executive Steering Group may issue a program mandate which defines the strategic objectives and benefits that the program is expected to deliver.






48. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






49. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.






50. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.