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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






3. Defines program management processes - manages schedule and budget at the program level - Defines program quality standards and components - Provides document configuration management - Provides centralized support for managing changes and tracking r






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






5. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






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






7. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements






8. First lifecycle phase






9. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.






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






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






12. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






13. Aligning the vision - mission and values - Developing an initial detailed cost and schedule plan - Conducting feasibility studies - where applicable - Establishing rules for make/buy decisions as well as those for selecting subcontractors - Develo






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






15. Second lifecycle phase






16. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






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






18. Desired outcomes - Benefits analysis - which identifies and plans for their realization Strategic fit within the organization's long term goals. - Total available resources - Estimated time scale - costs - and effort required to set-up - manage and d






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






20. Identification - monitoring and control of the inter-dependencies between the projects; Dealing with the escalated issues among the projects that compromise the program; and tracking the contribution of each project and the non-project work to the co






21. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






22. 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.






23. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






24. Focuses on the analysis of the available information about organizational and business strategies - internal & external influences - program drivers - and the benefits that involved parties expected to realize.






25. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






26. Third lifecycle phase






27. 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.






28. Program Closure






29. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






31. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.






32. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






33. Justification - vision - strategic fit - outcomes - scope - benefit strategy - assumptions and constraints - components - risks and issues - time scale - resources needed - stakeholder considerations - program governance - and the initial high-level






34. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






36. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.






37. 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






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






39. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.






40. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






41. Establishing a project governance structure to monitor and control the projects - Initiating projects in order to meet program objectives - Ensuring component deliverables meet the requirements - Analyzing the progress to plan - Identifying environme






42. Second phase of benefits management






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






44. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.






45. First phase of benefits management






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






47. Delivery of Program Benefits






48. 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






49. ___________ 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.






50. Pre-Program Preparations