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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Delivery of Program Benefits
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
2. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program
Program Governance
Portfolio Components
Program Domain
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
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Management
Project Management
4. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Life Cycle
Delivery of Program Benefits
5. Third phase of benefits management
Benefits Realization
Programs end
Portfolio
Programs
6. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Governance
Benefit
Integration Testing
Delivery of Program Benefits
7. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Phase-Gate Review
Program Setup Phase
8. Program Setup
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Closure Phase Activity
Any time
Main Program Phases Three of Five
9. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Programs
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefits Management
Process assets
10. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Product Lifecycle
Program Start
Program Initiation Phase
Program
11. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Program Charter Approval
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Benefits Transistion
Components
12. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Benefits Realization
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Main Program Phases Five of Five
13. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Benefits Realization Planning
Project
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Steering Committee
14. 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
Project
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Management Plan Content
Program Approval Factor
15. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
Organizational Process Assets
Programs
Program Setup Output
16. 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
Program
Phase-Gate Review
Program Closure Phase Activities
Main Program Phases Two of Five
17. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Portfolio Management
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Realization Planning
18. 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
Phase-Gate Reviews
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Process assets
Organizational Process Assets
19. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Life Cycle
20. 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
Process Groups
Project
Benefits Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
21. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Programs
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup Phase
Project Management
22. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Program Initiation Phase
Process assets
Program Start
Program Initiation Phase Activity
23. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Project
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Steering Committee
24. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Portfolio
Benefits Realization
Project
Parallel lifecycle to Program
25. Second phase of benefits management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Information Flow
Program Setup
Enterprise environmental factor
26. 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
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Project Domain
Means of Governance
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
27. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Closure Phase Activity
28. 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.
Program Initiation Phase
Program Information Flow
Relationship among projects within a program
Main Program Phases Five of Five
29. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Approval Factor
Program Initiation
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Enterprise environmental factor
30. First lifecycle phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Delivery of Program Benefits
Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Analysis and Planning
31. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Pre-program Preparations
Portfolio
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
32. 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.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Initiation Phase
Any time
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
Program Charter Contents
Programs end
Phase-Gate Review
Program Benefit Delivery
34. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Components
Programs
Means of Governance
35. ___________ 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.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Programs end
36. Third lifecycle phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Management
Program Setup
Program Management Responsibilities
37. 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
Program Charter Contents
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Setup Output
Means of Governance
38. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Benefits Management
Program Start
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Charter
39. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Benefits Realization
Any time
Program Setup Phase
Program Manager
40. 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.
Program Approval Factor
Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Setup Phase
41. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Charter Approval
Program Management Plan Content
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Charter Contents
42. 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.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Process Groups
Program Life Cycle
43. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Setup Phase
Program Life Cycle
Program begins
Phase-Gate Review
44. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Portfolio Components
Project Domain
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio Management
45. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefits Management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Enterprise environmental factor
46. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefit
Program Manager
Delivery of Program Benefits
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
Benefits Management
Program Life Cycle
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program
48. 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
Pre-program Preparations
Program Domain
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Closure Phase Activity
49. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
PMO
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Domain
Program Setup Phase
50. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Product Lifecycle
Programs
Program Benefit Delivery