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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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1. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.






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






3. 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






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






5. Program Setup






6. 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.






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






8. Management oversight of a program






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






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






11. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






12. Fourth Phase of benefits management






13. 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.






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






15. Fourth lifecycle phase






16. ___________ 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.






17. Program is ended by ________






18. 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






19. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Program Initiation






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






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






29. 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.






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. 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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Third lifecycle phase






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






39. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






40. 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






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






42. Pre-Program Preparations






43. First phase of benefits management






44. Second phase of benefits management






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






49. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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







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