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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. 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






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






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






4. First phase of benefits management






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






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






7. Second lifecycle phase






8. 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.






9. 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






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






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






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






13. Program Initiation






14. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






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






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






19. Fourth lifecycle phase






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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






24. Program Closure






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






34. 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






35. 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.






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






37. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.






38. Program Setup






39. 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






40. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






42. Third phase of benefits management






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






44. ___________ 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.






45. Third lifecycle phase






46. 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






47. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






49. 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






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