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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. ___________ 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






15. 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






16. Third lifecycle phase






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






21. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






25. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






31. 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






41. Third phase of benefits management






42. Program is ended by ________






43. 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.






44. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






45. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






47. 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






48. Program Closure






49. Second lifecycle phase






50. 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







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