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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






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






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






4. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






6. Program Setup






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






14. ___________ 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.






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






16. 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






17. Each one functions as a "go" or "no-go" decision point on the program as a whole. Performed to check the program performance against the planned criteria for exit from the phase that has just been completed - and to determine the readiness for procee






18. Management oversight of a program






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






20. Third phase of benefits management






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






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






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






24. Third lifecycle phase






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






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






35. Program is ended by ________






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






41. Program Closure






42. Fourth lifecycle phase






43. 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.






44. Second phase of benefits management






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






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






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. A program must have more than one to function.






50. Fourth Phase of benefits management







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