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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






4. Fourth lifecycle phase






5. 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.






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






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






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






10. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






12. 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






13. Program is ended by ________






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






20. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






29. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






35. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






39. 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






40. ___________ 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.






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






42. Program Initiation






43. Second phase of benefits management






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






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