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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






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






5. Fifth lifecycle phase






6. Management oversight of a program






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






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






9. Third phase of benefits management






10. 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






11. Pre-Program Preparations






12. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






13. Second phase of benefits management






14. Program Closure






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Third lifecycle phase






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. 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.






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






31. Second lifecycle phase






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






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. 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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






40. Program Initiation






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






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






43. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






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






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






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






49. First lifecycle phase






50. First phase of benefits management







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