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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






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. Pre-Program Preparations






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






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






11. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






20. Program Initiation






21. First phase of benefits management






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






23. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. First lifecycle phase






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






32. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Second phase of benefits management






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Third lifecycle phase






44. Program is ended by ________






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






46. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






48. Third phase of benefits management






49. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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