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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Program is ended by ________






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. Program Initiation






9. 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






10. 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.






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






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






13. Program Closure






14. 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.






15. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






17. Second phase of benefits management






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Fourth lifecycle phase






22. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






23. 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






24. Third phase of benefits management






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






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






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. 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






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






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






32. 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.






33. Fifth lifecycle phase






34. 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






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






36. First lifecycle phase






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






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






47. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






49. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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