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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Management oversight of a program






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Second lifecycle phase






5. Program Setup






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Second phase of benefits management






14. First phase of benefits management






15. Fourth lifecycle phase






16. 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






17. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






19. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






21. 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






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






23. Third phase of benefits management






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






25. Program Initiation






26. 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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Third lifecycle phase






31. 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.






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






33. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






36. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.






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






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






39. 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






40. Pre-Program Preparations






41. 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






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






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






44. Program is ended by ________






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






46. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






48. 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.






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






50. Delivery of Program Benefits