Pgmp Flashcards

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What is a Benefit?

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The gains and assets realized by the organization and other stakeholders as the result of outcomes delivered by the program.

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What is a Business Case?

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A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the validity of the benefits to be delivered by a program.

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What is a Component?

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Related activities conducted to support a program.

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What is a Constraint?

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A factor that limits the options for managing a project, program, portfolio, or process.

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What is Critical Thinking?

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A process in which one applies observation, analysis, inference, context, reflective thinking, and the like, in order to reach judgments.

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What are Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)?

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Conditions, not under the immediate control of the team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project, program, or portfolio.

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What are Intangible (or Nontangible) Benefits?

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Benefits that are intended for a program to produce but cannot be measured in units of money.

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What is Life Cycle Management?

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Managing all program activities related to program definition, program delivery, and program closure.

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What is a Phase Gate?

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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.

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What is a Portfolio?

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Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve objectives.

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What is Portfolio Management?

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The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.

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What is a Program?

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Related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities managed in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.

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What is a Project?

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

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What is the Benefits Analysis and Planning Phase?

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Establishes the program benefits management plan and develops the benefits metrics and framework for monitoring and controlling benefits.

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What is the Benefits Delivery Phase?

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Ensures that the program delivers the expected benefits, as defined in the benefits management plan.

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What is the Benefits Identification Phase?

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Analyzes information about organizational and business strategies, internal and external influences, and program drivers to identify and quantify expected benefits.

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What is Benefits Management?

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Processes that clarify the program’s planned benefits and intended outcomes and include processes for monitoring the program’s ability to deliver against these benefits.

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What is a Benefits Management Plan?

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The documented explanation defining the processes for creating, optimizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.

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What is the Benefits Management Performance Domain?

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Defines, creates, maximizes, and delivers the benefits provided by the program.

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What is the Benefits Sustainment Phase?

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Ongoing program maintenance activities beyond program completion to ensure continued benefit generation.

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What is the Benefits Transition Phase?

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Program activities that ensure benefits are transitioned to operational areas and can be sustained.

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What is the Collaboration Performance Domain?

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Creates and maintains synergy across stakeholders, both internal and external, to optimize benefits delivery and realization.

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What is the Governance Framework Performance Domain?

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Enables and performs program decision-making, establishes practices to support the program, and maintains program oversight.

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What is a Customer Operating Organization?

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The organization that receives or is willing to pay for the outputs, outcomes, and/or benefits delivered by the performing organization.

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What is a Delivery Organization?
The performing organization, collectively with all its subcontractors and affiliates.
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What is an Operating Organization?
The organization(s) responsible for operating the outputs of the program and sustaining benefits realization.
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What is a Performing Organization?
The enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
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What is a Sponsor?
An individual or a group that provides resources and support for the project, program, or portfolio and is accountable for enabling success.
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What is a Stakeholder?
An individual, group, or organization that may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project, program, or portfolio.
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What is Stakeholder Engagement?
Activities conducted to identify and analyze stakeholder needs and manage expectations and communications to foster stakeholder support.
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What is the Stakeholder Engagement Performance Domain?
Identifies and analyzes stakeholder needs and manages expectations and communications.
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What is a 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.
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What are Program Activities?
Tasks and work conducted to support a program and contribute throughout the program life cycle.
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What is Program Change Management?
Activities to plan for, monitor, control, and administer changes during the course of the program.
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What is a Program Charter?
A document issued by a sponsor that authorizes the program management team to use organizational resources to execute the program.
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What is the Program Closure Phase?
Activities necessary to retire or transition program benefits to a sustaining organization and formally close the program.
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What is Program Communications Management?
Activities necessary for the timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of program information.
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What is the Program Definition Phase?
Activities conducted to authorize the program and develop the program management plan or roadmap.
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What is the Program Delivery Phase?
Activities performed to produce the intended results of each component.
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What is a Program Financial Framework?
A high-level initial plan for coordinating available funding, determining constraints, and how funding is allocated.
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What is Program Financial Management?
Identifying financial sources, integrating budgets, developing the overall budget, and controlling costs.
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What is a Program Governance Plan?
A document describing systems and methods used to monitor, manage, and support a program.
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What is Program Information Management?
Activities related to how the program’s information assets are prepared, collected, organized, and secured.
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What is a Program Information Management Plan?
A document describing how program information assets will be handled.
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What is Program Integration Management?
Activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate multiple components into the program.
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What is Program Management?
The application of knowledge, skills, and principles to a program to achieve objectives.
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What is a Program Management Information System?
Tools used to collect, integrate, and communicate information critical for managing programs.
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What is a Program Management Office?
A management structure that standardizes program-related governance processes and facilitates resource sharing.
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What is the Program Management Performance Domain?
Complementary groupings of related areas of activity or function in program management.
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What is a Program Management Plan?
A document integrating subsidiary plans and establishing management controls.
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Who is a Program Manager?
The person authorized by the performing organization to lead the team or teams responsible for achieving program objectives.
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What is a Program Master Schedule?
An output of a schedule model that logically links components, milestones, and high-level activities.
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What is Program Procurement Management?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques necessary to acquire products and services.
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What is Program Quality Assurance?
Periodic evaluation of the overall program quality to ensure compliance with policies and standards.
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What is Program Quality Control?
Monitoring specific components or program deliverables to determine if they meet quality requirements.
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What is Program Quality Management?
Determining quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so the program will be successful.
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What is Program Resource Management?
Ensuring all required resources (people, equipment, materials, etc.) are available for program benefits delivery.
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What is Program Risk?
An uncertain event or condition that may have a positive or negative effect.
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What is Program Risk Management?
Activities related to identifying, monitoring, analyzing, and responding to risks.
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What is a Program Risk Register?
A document in which risks are recorded along with analysis and risk response planning.
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What is a Program Roadmap?
A chronological representation of a program’s intended direction.
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What is Program Schedule Management?
Determining the order and timing of components.
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What is Program Scope Management?
Activities to define, develop, monitor, control, and verify program scope.