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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Pre-program Preparations
Program Start
Main Program Phases One of Five
2. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Portfolio
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Domain interaction
3. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Program Shutdown
Program Manager
Phase-Gate Reviews
Any time
4. 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
Program Management Plan Content
Programs end
Benefits Realization
Program Charter Contents
5. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Program Setup Output
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Approval Factor
Program Charter
6. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Programs end
Benefits Management
Benefit
7. 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
Program Closure Phase Activity
Programs
Program Shutdown
Process assets
8. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefit
Programs
9. Third phase of benefits management
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Realization
Program begins
Benefits Realization Planning
10. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Components
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
11. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Integration Testing
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Closure Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
12. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Domain
Any time
13. 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.
Program Life Cycle
Process assets
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Management
14. Second phase of benefits management
Process assets
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program
Organizational Process Assets
15. Second lifecycle phase
Program Start
Program Initiation
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Setup Phase
16. 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
Program Charter Contents
Process Groups
Pre-program Preparations
Program Setup Phase Activity
17. First lifecycle phase
Benefits Management
Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Analysis and Planning
18. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Charter Approval
Means of Governance
Governance
Benefits Realization Planning
19. First phase of benefits management
Program Shutdown
Program Setup Output
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Identification
20. 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.
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program infrastructure
Parallel lifecycle to Program
21. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program Setup
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Setup Output
Means of Governance
22. 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
Program Setup Output
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Identification
Program Approval Factor
23. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Portfolio Management
Benefits Realization
Program
Means of Governance
24. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Programs
Program Start
Program Management
Enterprise environmental factor
25. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Closure Phase
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Transistion
26. 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
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
Program
27. Third lifecycle phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup
28. 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
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Portfolio
Program Shutdown
Program Setup Phase Activity
29. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Setup Phase
Program
Program Charter
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
30. 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.
Any time
Program Governance
Program Information Flow
Product Lifecycle
31. 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.
Program Governance
Program Life Cycle
Program Closure Phase
Portfolio Review Board
32. 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
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Project Domain
Program Setup Phase
Program
33. 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.
Program Initiation Phase
Portfolio
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Setup Phase Activity
34. 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.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Governance
Program Management
Portfolio Review Board
35. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Program Domain
Benefits Realization Planning
Steering Committee
36. 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.
Program Shutdown
Pre-program Preparations
Program begins
Benefits Transistion
37. Program Closure
Benefits Realization
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Initiating and planning
Benefits Management
38. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Program Start
Components
Project Domain
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
39. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Closure
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Setup
Portfolio Management
40. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Program Setup Phase
Program Domain
Program Closure Phase Activities
Parallel lifecycle to Program
41. 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
Pre-program Preparations
Integration Testing
Benefits Identification
Phase-Gate Review
42. Management oversight of a program
Program Charter
Project Management
Governance
Program Closure Phase Activities
43. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Organizational Process Assets
Any time
Integration Testing
44. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Domain
Program
Benefits Management
Program Charter Contents
45. 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.
Program Initiation Phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Portfolio Management
Program Setup Phase
46. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Project
47. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Product Lifecycle
Program
Program Domain
Program Management Responsibilities
48. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Integration Testing
Components
Pre-Program Phase Activity
49. Program Initiation
Portfolio Review Board
Program Setup Output
Organizational Process Assets
Main Program Phases Two of Five
50. 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
Program Setup
Program Closure Phase Activities
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Project