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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






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






5. Second phase of benefits management






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






7. Second lifecycle phase






8. Third phase of benefits management






9. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






10. 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.






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






12. Third lifecycle phase






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






14. First lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






25. ___________ 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.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






30. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






31. 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






32. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






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






37. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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