Definitions Flashcards
Understand the Definitions of PgMP
Definition: Benefit
The gains and assets realized by the organization and other stakeholders as the result of outcomes delivered by the program.
Definition: Benefits Management Plan
The documented explanation defining the processes for creation, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program
Definition: Benefits Analysis and Planning Phase
Establishes the program benefits management plan and develop the benefit metrics and framework for monitoring and controlling both the components and the measurement of benefits within the program.
Definition: Benefits Delivery Phase
Ensures that the program delivers the expected benefits management plan.
Definition: Benefits Sustainment Phase
Ongoing maintenance activities performed beyond the end of the program by receiving organizations to assure the continued generation of the improvements and outcomes delivered by the program.
Definition: Benefits Transition Phase
Program activities that ensure the benefits are transitioned to operational areas and can be sustained once they are transferred.
Definition: Business Case
A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the validity of the benefits to be delivered by a program.
Definition: Component
A project, subsidiary programs or other related activities conducted to support a program.
Definition: Constraint
A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project, program, portfolio, or process.
Definition: Enterprise Environmental Factors
Condition, not under the immediate control of the team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project, program, or portfolio.
Definition: Performing Organization
An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Definition: Phase Gate
A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase, to continue with modification, or to end a project or program.
Definition: Portfolio
Projects, Programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Definition: Portfolio Management
The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Definition: Procurement Management Plan
A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Definition: Program
Related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities managed in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Definition: Program Activities
Taks and work conducted ot support a program and which contribute throughout the program life cycle.
Definition: Program Benefits Management
Processes that clarifiy the program’s planned benefits and intended outcomes and includes processes for monitoring the program’s ability to to deliver against these benefits and outcomes.
Definition: Program Benefits Management Performance Domain
Performance domain that defines, creates, maximizes, and delivers the benefits provided by the program.
Definition: Program Change Management
Activites to plan for, monitor, control, and administer changes during the course of the program.
Definition: Program Charter
A document issued by a sponsor that authorizes the program management team to use organizational resources to execute the program and links the program to the organizations’s strategic objectives.
Definition: Program Closure Phase
Program activities necessary to transition program benefits to sustaining organization and formally close the program in a controlled manner.
Definition: Programm Communications Management
Activities necessary to the timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of program information.
Definition: Program Definition Phase
Program Activites conducted to authorize the program and develop the program roadmap required to achieve the expected results.
Definition: Program Delivery Phase
Program activities performed to produce the intended results of each component in accordance with the program management plan.
Definition: Program Financial Framework
A high-level initial plan for coordinating available funding, determining constraints, and determining how funding is allocated.