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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Third lifecycle phase






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. ___________ 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.






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Management oversight of a program






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






19. 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






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






21. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. Second phase of benefits management






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






36. Pre-Program Preparations






37. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






38. Program Initiation






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






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






41. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






43. 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.






44. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






45. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






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







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