The program manager has a global program with five component projects. The program sponsor wants the management plans, processes/procedures, and technology to be uniform across the program. The requirements will create issues and result in increased costs The program sponsor is new and has imposed these new requirements six months into a three-year program.
What should the program manager do next?
A program is in its last year of execution. The program manager will receive a performance bonus if executive leadership and the program steering committee determine that the program is a success.
How can the program manager justify receiving a performance bonus upon program closure?
In preparation for the development and submission of the program master schedule to a client, the program manager meets with the component project manager and master program scheduler to discuss the work breakdown structure (WBS).
During the meeting, the master scheduler indicates that the master program schedule should include which of the following?
You are a program manager for your organization. You have proposed a program to the management that will last four years and will cost $35 million to create. Management has asked to see the program charter and the proposed costs and benefits of the program.
Management agrees to your program charter and proposed to fund the program in increments at the completion of each milestone. What type of funding does management proposed for this program?
A program manager for the construction of an international event venue that will impact the local community needs to determine the best approach for communications. One of the conditions of the program is that after the event takes place, a park will be built for the community’s use.
What should the program manager do to ensure community support?
What does RACI stand for?
You are the project manager for your organization. Your project team has finished the second phase of a seven-phase project. At the end of each phase, management must review the work your project team has completed and determine if the project should be allowed to continue. What name describes this type of end- of-phase review management is completing on your project?
Management is trying to determine which program to initiate. Each of the potential programs has the possibility of creating an income for each it is in existence. Management would like to consider the present value for each year a program creates a return on investment. What program selection method is management using in this
instance?
You are the program manager for your organization and are working with Tracy, one of the project managers in your program. Tracy is having some trouble understanding the concept of the critical path in her project's network diagram. Which one of the following is the best definition of the critical path?
An R&D group director approves a major program’s charter. Although the director has a high level of understanding of the program’s scope, they are unsure of how the program manager can be successful in delivering the program’s commitments.
What should the program manager do to align stakeholders with planning and monitoring the program’s progress?
