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Program Stakeholder Engagement

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

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1.

As a program manager for the X Phone program, your stakeholders, and especially the members of your program governance board, have requested an analysis of any opportunities that can be leveraged as you collect and analyze performance on your program. Also, you want to determine whether any adverse impacts must be corrected. How will you deal with this case as a program manager?

a)

Meet with your key stakeholders to inform them of your program's progress according to their specific areas

b)

Make the consolidated information available through the Information Distribution Process

c)

Follow the tenets as outlined in your Communications Management Plan

d)

Contact your Governance Board if you see there are adverse trends that require immediate action to meet the required delivery

2.

You have started stakeholder analysis. What is the first step you would complete as a program manager?

a)

They are determining the degree of support or opposition the stakeholder has for the objectives of the Program

b)

Evaluating the degree to which the stakeholder can influence the outcome of the program

c)

Prioritizing stateholders according to their ability to influence the program outcomes, either. Positively or negatively

d)

Gaining an understanding of organizational culture, stakeholder attitudes toward the program, and communication requirements

3.

You have difficulty ensuring that the program team members allocated to your program are working on your program. These resources were identified and allocated to the program some time ago when the program was approved. While they are working on the program, they were to be managed and guided by you. However, on the days that the program team members are meant to be working on the program, their operational managers have other operational duties allocated to them. This situation is causing a lot of conflict as the program is not progressing as planned, which is frustrating the other program team members and making it very difficult for the program team to continue to meet stakeholder's expectations. What would be your BEST INITIAL action to take to resolve the situation of the program team members not being released to your program when agreed?

a)

Advise the Program Steering Committee that the expectations will not be met unless this situation is resolved

b)

Negotiate with the Operational Manager for the future release of the agreed resources

c)

Advise the Program Sponsor so that he can speak with the Operational Manager to resolve

d)

Raise an issue in the Issue Register and escalate the issue immediately with your recommendation

4.

You have identified and analyzed the stakeholders who may have an interest in or influence your program. Your next step is to?

a)

Prepare a resource assignment matrix

b)

Prepare a resource management plan

c)

Develop a project stakeholder management plan

d)

Develop a Stakeholder Engagement Plan

5.

Stakeholder knowledge and experience can contribute to program outcomes. At times, negotiated compromises may need to be reached to respond to stakeholder concerns. Should they be captured in the?

a)

Stakeholder Inventory

b)

Stakeholder Engagement Plan

c)

Stakeholder Register

d)

Stakeholder analysis chart

6.

You are a program manager for developing a dam that will conserve water and help reduce the threat of floods. This being as long-term program and has a high stake. You have been asked to be very strict in terms of Process Management and adherence. Any deviations required will follow an extensive approval process. One of the primary stakeholders has been missing meetings. Are these detail found in?

a)

Program Communication Management Plan

b)

Communication Strategy

c)

Program Management Information System

d)

Communication Log

7.

Working to prepare your stakeholder register and also a stakeholder engagement plan, you need to ensure you identify all the stakeholders on your program. Assume you decide to conduct a stakeholder analysis. Your first step in this activity is to?

a)

Determine the degree of support or opposition the stakeholder may have toward the program

b)

Develop a communications strategy

c)

Develop an understanding of organizational culture

d)

Evaluate how the stakeholder may influence the program's outcome

8.

You are working on a very critical program for your organization. The best way to get and enhance support for the program and its objectives?

a)

Get stakeholder's buy in

b)

Provide adaptive communication methodology

c)

Foster relationships

d)

Track stakeholder's expectations and concerns

9.

You have completed the stakeholder analysis and engagement plan. What is the next step you would do as a program manager?

a)

Identify communication requirements of the stakeholder

b)

Develop a communication management strategy

c)

Develop a communication management plan

d)

Develop stakeholder map

10.

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is the key to the success of any Program. As an experienced Program Manager, what is the first activity you would perform for the Stakeholder Engagement?

a)

Create Stakeholder Matrix

b)

Perform Stakeholder analysis

c)

Set expectations with Stakeholders

d)

Define Communication protocol with stakeholders

11.

Expectations are the process of managing communications to satisfy the requirements of and resolve issues with program stakeholders. There are several techniques recommended to the Program Manager to manage the stakeholder's expectations. What technique would the Program Manager of Program "Jet Cars" likely use now to manage this specific conflict?

a)

Brainstorming

b)

Stakeholder Analysis

c)

Communications

d)

Focus Groups

12.

Who is (are) the champion of change for the program?

a)

Program manager

b)

Program sponsor

c)

Project manager

d)

Operations managers

13.

During the program delivery, you find that one of the stakeholders missed being identified. The first document you will update is?

a)

Stakeholder Register

b)

Communications Management Plan

c)

Program Management Plan

d)

Stakeholder Engagement Plan

14.

Each of the stakeholders on your next-generation ballpoint pen program has different communication needs. To ensure that each stakeholder receives the appropriate information in a useful format and a timely manner, you ask a core team member to prepare a(n)?

a)

Information-gathering system

b)

Information-retrieval system

c)

Lessons-learned process

d)

Stakeholder register

15.

To build your core team, you need to develop an acountability matrix. Which of the following is least useful in accomplishing this task?

a)

Identify tools for resource competence assessment

b)

Describe specific requirements or core team members

c)

Compare milestones with sponsors and stakeholder's expectations

d)

Identify the competence requirements for each role

16.

Each program has stakeholders. The purpose of program stakeholder Engagement Planning is to identify how the program will affect stakeholders in aread such as?

a)

Corporate governance

b)

Legal policies, standards, and regulations

c)

The organization's culture

d)

Management of operations

17.

Your communications management plan shows the various communications items to be distributed to your stakeholders, their purpose, frequency, and format, and the responsible person. As you work on your program, you are following this plan for formal communication of program information. Additionally, you realize as an output of the Distribute Information activity, and you need to?

a)

Update the communications management plan

b)

Prepare a lessons-learned process

c)

Prepare standard information requests

d)

Informally communicate on an as-needed basis

18.

You have been working as a new program manager for the Global Framework development program for your organization. You have scheduled a meeting to define the benefits measurement and reporting framework. You invited component managers, the training head, the sponsor, the finance head of your unit, and the strategic business analyst. Which important key stakeholder did you miss out on?

a)

The CEO

b)

The knowledge management SMEs is the most critical component

c)

Senior representatives of the operations team

d)

The origination PMO director

19.

In which artifact will you record a comprehensive summary of how each stakeholder will be affected by the program and the strategy to respond to these effects on the stakeholder?

a)

Stakeholder checklists

b)

Stakeholder inventory

c)

Stakeholder Engagement plan

d)

Stakeholder register

20.

Which of these statements best justifies the importance of establishing "relationships" with the stakeholders?

a)

The existence of relationships increases the effectiveness of communications among stakeholders

b)

Relationships may motivate stakeholders to go over and beyond the contract to help each other

c)

Relationships will cause you to overlook minor mistakes made by others

d)

Stakeholders may take more interest in the program due to relationships

21.

You are the Program Manager on a defense program. Due to the complexity of the program, conflicts arise, and resolving conflict is your responsibility. You decide to use the smoothing technique to resolve the conflict that arises during the decision to include a project that will benefit the overall program but have a less than positive impact on two stakeholders. Which of the following best desribes this technique?

a)

Use a direct order

b)

Focus on the positive and distract attention from the negative areas of decision

c)

Attempt to work out the solution to the actual program

d)

Have both parties agree to concessions to find common ground

22.

Large construction program comprises several residential and commercial projects in an integrated township. An architect who was part of the team that designed the original blueprints is a key resource in great demand. Several projects are starting at the same time and require his services urgently. You can sense that this is causing conflict among projects, and project managers are complaining that this is delaying their projects. What is your best approach to solving this conflict?

a)

Let the project managers negotiate among themselves and come to an agreement

b)

Escalate the issue to senior management and ask for a budget to hire more architects

c)

Call a meeting of the projects involved and try to arrive at the best course of action

d)

Take a decision based on the relative priorities of each project and communicate this to all concerned parties

23.

One of the key responsibilities of the program manager is to ensure that the proper communication is provided at the right time. For that, it is very important to account for all the key players related to your program and any related parties that might affect your program from the beginning to the end. Which of the following core themes of program management are you fulfilling?

a)

Stakeholder Engagement Planning

b)

Program Stakeholder Engagement

c)

Program Governance

d)

Program Stakeholder Identification

24.

Due to your past performance in the previous program, you are asked to take responsibility for the High-Speed Rail Network program. You are in the Program planning sub-phase and working to develop a stakeholder engagement plan. Which information-gathering technique would you use to assemble stakeholder's concerns and expectations for this purpose?

a)

SWOT

b)

RFP

c)

PWBS

d)

CPI

25.

You have completed the Stakeholder analysis and engagement plan. What is the next step?

a)

Prepare Program's Communications plan (review stakeholder Interest and Influence and come out with communication requirements based on Stakeholder's Priority)

b)

Update stakeholder management plan with the metrics you have developed

c)

Talk with the governance board and come out with an action plan

d)

Inform all the stakeholders

26.

Communications planning and execution activities focus on?

a)

Reacting to stakeholder concerns

b)

Identifying suitable technologies for distributing program information

c)

Proactively targeting development and delivery of key messages

d)

Taking corrective actions in response to program issues

27.

As a program manager with several projects in your program, you work closely with your project managers during communications planning. A key input is the?

a)

Lessons learned database

b)

Communications strategy

c)

Program charter

d)

Communications requirements analysis

28.

You prepare a performance analysis report while you close your program. You use several tools and techniques to help you in this task. As you prepare this report, you?

a)

Execute the transition plan

b)

Conduct a post-review meeting

c)

Collect data concerning stakeholder expectations and requirements

d)

Redeploy the personal resources as stated in the resource management plan

29.

Stakeholder Engagement is a common theme across project and program management. The primary difference between stakeholder Engagement in projects and programs is that?

a)

The number of stakeholders in projects is much larger as project managers work at a very detailed level

b)

Program managers need to constantly interact with stakeholders, whereas it is a one-time activity for project

c)

Program managers will focus on program-level stakeholders, keeping in mind that some of the project's stakeholders will be common

d)

Project managers do not need to be involved with stakeholder management - it is either a program or sponsor function

30.

You recognize on this aerospace program that with so many possible stakeholders, some stakeholders will be supportive. In contrast, others may not be as positive and will feel resources may better be used on other programs. This means you and your teams should develop a comprehensive summary of how the program will impact each stakeholder. Where will you log stakeholder issues and concerns?

a)

Stakeholder Register

b)

Risk Register

c)

Issue Log

d)

Requirement Log

31.

Your Program team is involved in identifying stakeholders for your Program, which is recently initiated, and your Program has major impacts on many other Projects & Programs currently in existence. Hence the key to success is identifying all the necessary stakeholders across all Projects & Programs within your Organization. So, you advised your Program team to document the stakeholder's lists and categorize their relationship to the program, their ability to influence the program outcome, and their degree of support. Your Program team is about to prepare which document?

a)

Stakeholder Register

b)

Stakeholder Management Plan

c)

Stakeholder Inventory

d)

Stakeholder Checklist

32.

In addition to problem-solving, forcing, smoothing, and compromising, there is another method of approaching conflict. What is the method, and why is it not considered the best conflict resolution technique?

a)

Acceleration, because it is not proactive

b)

Withdrawal, because it typically increases conflict

c)

Withdrawal, because it is not proactive

d)

Deceleration, because it typically increases conflict

33.

You are managing a critical Program for a bank ABC, and there are multiple projects within this program, and the team members are spread around more than 80 countries. You have received a request from one of the Project Management Office which is newly deployed in a country, and they want to update their Communication tactics. Which document do you advise that the Project Management office refer to?

a)

Program Management Information System (PMIS)

b)

Communication Management Plan

c)

Program Work Breakdown structure (PWBS)

d)

Program Management Plan

34.

Company ABC has several programs of work underway. The Program Manager for Program "Y" has just resigned and is leaving in a few weeks. The program team members on Program "Y" are becoming increasingly disheartened as to the ultimate success of their program. The program performance metrics indicate the program is behind in delivering benefits, and the stakeholders are dissatisfied with the level of communication. Program "Z", on the other hand, is progressing as planned. It looks like the program will be closed earlier than scheduled and without utilizing all the resources allocated. Several work programs have been authorized by the Program Board that are awaiting resources to become available to commence. The BEST INITIAL course of action for the Program Governance Board to take with Program "Y" is?

a)

Remove the Program Manager of Program Y now and hire a new Program Manager to complete the program

b)

Reallocate the Program Manager from Program Z to Program Y to get Program Y back on track, as he has shown his abilities with Program Z

c)

Evaluate the program with stakeholders and Program Manager to determine the key issues of Program Y

d)

Promote the best performing project manager within Program Y to the Program Manager role for the program

35.

In your unemployment insurance program, you plan to use many contractors to assist with the various component projects. As you prepare your communications plan, you need to review assumptions such as?

a)

Geographic locations involved

b)

Specialties involved in the program

c)

Confidentiality clauses

d)

The Labor Department's communication strategy

36.

You are managing a program to redesign most selling products for your organization. You identified your stakeholders. You then developed a stakeholder engagement plan and identified a member of your program team to work with those people directly that you felt were the critical stakeholders. It is important as a program manager to get support for the program. What will you do as a program manager to accomplish this?

a)

Generate and maintain visibility of the program

b)

Evaluate risks identified by the stakeholders

c)

Update the stakeholder register

d)

Develop stakeholder map