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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. Delivery of Program Benefits






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. First lifecycle phase






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. First phase of benefits management






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






27. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






29. 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






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






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






32. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






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






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






37. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






39. ___________ 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.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. Third phase of benefits management






48. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






49. 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.






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