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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. Third phase of benefits management






3. 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






4. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






5. First phase of benefits management






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






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






8. Program Initiation






9. 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






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






11. A program manager has been identified - and the key input into this phase - a program brief or charter defining high-level scope - objectives - visions and constraints has been generated.






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






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






14. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.






15. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.






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






17. 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






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






19. Management oversight of a program






20. 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






21. Program is ended by ________






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






23. Program Closure






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






32. 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






33. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






35. 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.






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






37. ___________ 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. Fourth Phase of benefits management






44. First lifecycle phase






45. A program must have more than one to function.






46. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






47. 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






48. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






50. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.