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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. First phase of benefits management






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






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






5. First lifecycle phase






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Program Setup






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. Second phase of benefits management






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






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






23. Fifth lifecycle phase






24. 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.






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






26. Program is ended by ________






27. Third phase of benefits management






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






29. Second lifecycle phase






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






31. Fourth lifecycle phase






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






38. 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






39. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






41. Third lifecycle phase






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






43. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.






44. 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






45. Program Initiation






46. 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.






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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.