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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






3. ___________ 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.






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






9. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






10. 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






11. First lifecycle phase






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. Second phase of benefits management






17. Management oversight of a program






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






19. 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






20. Program is ended by ________






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






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






24. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






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






27. Program Initiation






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






29. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






30. Third lifecycle phase






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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






35. Fourth lifecycle phase






36. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






38. Program Setup






39. 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






40. 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






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






42. Third phase of benefits management






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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