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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Second lifecycle phase






2. Third lifecycle phase






3. 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






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






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






6. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






8. 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






9. Delivery of Program Benefits






10. Program Setup






11. Program Closure






12. Program Initiation






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






14. Management oversight of a program






15. 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






16. Pre-Program Preparations






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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






35. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






45. 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






46. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






47. Program is ended by ________






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






49. 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






50. Organizational structure - culture and processes.