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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






3. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






10. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






11. 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






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






13. Fifth lifecycle phase






14. 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






15. 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






16. Third lifecycle phase






17. 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.






18. Program Closure






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






27. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






28. First phase of benefits management






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Projects related only by a shared client - technology - seller - or resources - A collection of components (i.e. projects - programs - portfolios - and other work such as maintenance and related ongoing operations) that are grouped together to facili






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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