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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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1. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Program Charter Contents
Domain interaction
Portfolio Review Board
Program Setup Phase Activity
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
Program Charter Contents
Project Management
Program Management Plan Content
Program begins
3. 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
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefit
Phase-Gate Reviews
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
4. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Charter Contents
Project Management
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Charter Approval
5. 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 Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Setup
Program Governance
Steering Committee
6. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio Components
Steering Committee
Project Management
7. Second phase of benefits management
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Strong communication skills
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Transistion
8. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Program Initiation
Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Two of Five
9. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Governance
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Life Cycle
10. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Strong communication skills
Benefits Realization
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Governance
11. Fifth lifecycle phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Closure
Initiating and planning
Benefits Management
12. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Phase-Gate Reviews
Any time
13. 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.
Portfolio Review Board
Program
Program Charter Contents
Program Initiation
14. 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
Initiating and planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Organizational Process Assets
Program Charter Contents
15. 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.
Strong communication skills
Delivery of Program Benefits
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Information Flow
16. 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
Program Management Responsibilities
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Approval Factor
Program Closure Phase Activities
17. 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.
Initiating and planning
Governance
Program Initiation Phase
Program Management Responsibilities
18. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Governance
Initiating and planning
Portfolio Management
Project
19. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Management
Benefits Realization Planning
Programs
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
20. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Start
Governance
Program
21. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Integration Testing
Program Benefit Delivery
Delivery of Program Benefits
22. 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 Closure
Program infrastructure
Program Charter Contents
23. 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 Management
Portfolio Review Board
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup Phase Activity
24. 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 Charter Contents
Main Program Phases One of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Parallel lifecycle to Program
25. 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
Program Domain
Programs end
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Analysis and Planning
26. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Domain
27. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Realization
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Phase-Gate Review
28. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
PMO
Portfolio Review Board
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Means of Governance
29. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Program begins
Initiating and planning
Program Governance
30. 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 Setup Phase
Portfolio
Product Lifecycle
Portfolio Management
31. First lifecycle phase
Relationship among projects within a program
Program
Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
32. 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 Closure
Pre-program Preparations
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Life Cycle
33. 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 Benefit Delivery
Program Closure Phase Activity
Programs
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
34. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
PMO
Program Life Cycle
Program Setup
35. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Initiating and planning
Benefits Identification
Program Manager
36. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Project
Phase-Gate Review
Program Initiation Phase
Programs
37. 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.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program infrastructure
Program Charter
Portfolio Management
38. Pre-Program Preparations
Governance
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Manager
39. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Closure Phase
Project Domain
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program begins
40. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Enterprise environmental factor
Components
Benefits Transistion
41. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Enterprise environmental factor
42. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Management Plan Content
Programs
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Domain
43. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program begins
44. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Any time
Program begins
Program Domain
Program Setup
45. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
PMO
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program
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
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Management Plan Content
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
47. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Product Lifecycle
Benefits Management
Portfolio Review Board
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
48. A program must have more than one to function.
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Components
Governance
Project
49. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Closure Phase Activities
50. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Management
Program Setup Phase
Program Management Plan Content
Portfolio
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