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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. Program is ended by ________






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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






8. Second lifecycle phase






9. 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






10. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. ___________ 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.






26. Delivery of Program Benefits






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






31. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






32. Fourth lifecycle phase






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Second phase of benefits management






37. 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.






38. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






40. Program Initiation






41. 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






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






43. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






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