Strategic Program Alignment
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Which of the following best defines a program according to PMI's Standard for Program Management?
- AA large, complex project with an extended schedule
- BA group of related projects, subsidiary programs, and program activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually✓
- CA collection of unrelated projects grouped together for consolidated status reporting, with each project keeping its own separate business case and its own executive sponsor
- DA portfolio of investments selected to balance organizational risk
Answer: PMI defines a program as related components managed in a coordinated way to realize benefits unavailable if the components were managed separately. Size or schedule length alone does not make an initiative a program.
A key distinction between program management and project management is that program management is primarily focused on:
- AProducing a single defined deliverable within a fixed scope, cost and schedule baseline agreed with the customer at authorization
- BDetailed day-to-day scheduling of individual work packages and the assignment of named resources to each activity on the critical path
- CManaging one budget line for a single deliverable
- DCoordinating interdependent components to realize benefits aligned with organizational strategy✓
Answer: Program management emphasizes cross-component coordination and strategic benefit realization, while project management focuses on delivering a specific scope of work. Detailed work-package scheduling is a project-level, not program-level, concern.
Which document formally authorizes a program and grants the program manager authority to apply organizational resources to program activities?
- AThe high-level program roadmap
- BThe benefits management plan
- CThe program charter✓
- DThe stakeholder register
Answer: The program charter formally authorizes the program's existence and gives the program manager authority over resources. The roadmap, benefits plan, and stakeholder register support the program but do not authorize it.