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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






2. 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






3. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.






8. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. Program is ended by ________






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






18. 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.






19. Third lifecycle phase






20. 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






21. 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






22. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Program Closure






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






28. 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






29. Understanding the strategic benefits of the program - Developing a plan to initiate the program - Defining the program objectives and their alignment with the organizational goals - Developing a high level business case demonstrating an understanding






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






31. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






39. Pre-Program Preparations






40. Program Initiation






41. ___________ 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.






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






43. 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






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






45. Third phase of benefits management






46. 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






47. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






48. 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






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






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