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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. 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






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






4. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






5. 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






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






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






8. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. Fourth lifecycle phase






17. 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






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






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






20. Pre-Program Preparations






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. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






23. Third lifecycle phase






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






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






26. Program Setup






27. 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






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






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






30. Third phase of benefits management






31. 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






32. Second phase of benefits management






33. ___________ 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.






34. Management oversight of a program






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






36. 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






37. First lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






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






43. First phase of benefits management






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. Program Initiation







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