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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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
Program Closure Phase Activities
PMO
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
2. Third phase of benefits management
Process Groups
Benefits Realization
Program Closure
Program Management
3. First phase of benefits management
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Benefits Identification
Enterprise environmental factor
Initiating and planning
4. Program Closure
Program Setup Output
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Five of Five
5. 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
Portfolio Management
Program
Program Management Responsibilities
Main Program Phases One of Five
6. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase
Relationship among projects within a program
7. 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.
Portfolio Components
Program Information Flow
Program Management Responsibilities
Main Program Phases Five of Five
8. Management oversight of a program
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Review
Program Management
Governance
9. Program Initiation
Program Shutdown
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Benefit
Pre-Program Preparations
10. 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
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Setup
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Approval Factor
11. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Closure
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Manager
12. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter Contents
Program Charter Approval
Project
13. 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 Setup Output
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter Approval
Portfolio Review Board
14. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Program Information Flow
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Review
15. Third lifecycle phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup
Portfolio Management
Pre-Program Preparations
16. Second phase of benefits management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Product Lifecycle
Program Management Responsibilities
Enterprise environmental factor
17. 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
Program Manager
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
18. A program must have more than one to function.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
PMO
Program Closure Phase Activities
Components
19. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Program
Process Groups
Pre-program Preparations
20. 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
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefit
Program Charter Contents
Program begins
21. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Project
Program Setup Phase
Program infrastructure
22. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Phase-Gate Reviews
Any time
Project Domain
Programs
23. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefits Management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Pre-program Preparations
PMO
24. First lifecycle phase
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Setup Output
Program Setup Phase
Pre-Program Preparations
25. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Program Shutdown
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Setup
Program Charter
26. 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
Program Shutdown
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Management Plan Content
Program Manager
27. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Project Management
Pre-program Preparations
Program infrastructure
Program Charter Approval
28. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Approval Factor
Programs
Benefits Management
Program Benefit Delivery
29. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.
Program Governance
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program infrastructure
Programs
30. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Steering Committee
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio
Program Setup Output
31. 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
Program Closure
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program
32. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Domain
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
33. 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.
Enterprise environmental factor
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Management
Program Initiation Phase
34. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Means of Governance
Program Management Plan Content
Program Life Cycle
Program
35. 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.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio Review Board
36. Second lifecycle phase
Benefits Realization Planning
Phase-Gate Review
Program Initiation
Program Shutdown
37. 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.
Benefits Transistion
Pre-program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation
38. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Governance
Benefits Identification
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Closure Phase Activities
39. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Initiating and planning
Benefits Realization Planning
Benefits Transistion
Program Charter Contents
40. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Project Management
Strong communication skills
Governance
Portfolio Management
41. 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
Main Program Phases One of Five
Portfolio
Program Governance
Program Benefit Delivery
42. Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Pre-Program Phase Activity
43. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
PMO
Portfolio Components
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program infrastructure
44. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program
Program Life Cycle
Program Manager
45. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Information Flow
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase
Program Benefit Delivery
46. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Governance
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Pre-program Preparations
Organizational Process Assets
47. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Portfolio Management
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Closure Phase
48. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Charter Contents
Program
49. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Benefits Management
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Programs
Project Domain
50. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Organizational Process Assets
Program
Program Management