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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. 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.






3. Delivery of Program Benefits






4. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






5. First lifecycle phase






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






7. Program Setup






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. Third phase of benefits management






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






14. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






19. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






21. Second phase of benefits management






22. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






32. 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






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






34. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






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






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






37. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






38. Program Initiation






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






40. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






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






42. Program is ended by ________






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






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






45. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.






46. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






50. 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.