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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Program is ended by ________






2. 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.






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






4. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






5. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. Program Closure






14. Delivery of Program Benefits






15. ___________ 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.






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Third lifecycle phase






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






25. 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.






26. Management oversight of a program






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. Fifth lifecycle phase






34. 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






35. Pre-Program Preparations






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. A program must have more than one to function.






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






42. First phase of benefits management






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control






49. Program Initiation






50. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related