You are managing a program to develop a new product to protect all workers from germs in the workplace to assure everyone that the workplace is clean. They will not have to worry in the future if a co$-$worker has communicable disease. However, you have just learned that there was a failure to adhere to a major element in the work breakdown structure $($WBS$)$ of one of the key projects.The solution to this problem is:

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Interactions and realignment of this project must be managed

Re$-$baselining may be required

A change request has been approved

New metrics are required

As you work on this emergency response program for your city, you recognize you will need a number of different types of supplies and services to support your program and its component projects. One common approach is to use:

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Expert judgment

Formalized proposal evaluation criteria

Screening systems

Weighting systems

You are preparing the business case to obtain organizational leadership approval for a new program to implement a company$-$wide customer relationship management system to better manage sales activities and leads. You have been meeting with many people as you work to prepare this business case, and already you have heard more than $600$ salespeople in your company object to it$.$ Your business plan therefore should clearly address:

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The technical feasibility of the program

Intrinsic benefits

How generally accepted methods of change management will be used

How the return on investment will be calculated to demonstrate success.

Assume that in your automotive company, you will be appointed as the program manager for the $2016$ new line of hybrid cars that will use only gasoline, if the vehicle has traveled more than $300$ miles. This program is a major change for your company as it has not entered the hybrid market until this past year, and the new line of vehicles is to have an average of $75$ miles per gallon. The current hybrid gets $30$ miles per gallon. You are going to buy a SUV, a minivan and an inexpensive SUV. Finally, your program charter was approved and you were officially named as the program manager. You were fortunate to work with your sponsor in developing the charter and you also:

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Used input from all stakeholders

Relied extensively on historical information

Convened a panel to assist in its preparation using the Delphi technique

Sent a draft of the charter to the proposed members of the Governance Board for their input

You are responsible for a program to develop the next$-$generation cellular phone. The program includes a number of key products and is set up according to the father$-$son mode. Because programs are responsible for delivering benefits:

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You want to ensure that the targeted benefits are measurable

Set up the program control framework for planning, monitoring and controlling the program

Expand on the roadmap that provides a chronological representation of the program's direction

Complete the program team staffing

Your company, a major dairy cooperative, has embraced portfolio management. Previously, some projects continued indefinitely, even after their sponsors had left the company and no one could remember why they had been initiated. Now all programs and projects are part of the portfolio, which is where investment decisions are made. In response to a growing consumer demand for organic foods, the company is attempting to capitalize on this demand by entering the organic foods market. You are appointed as program manger. Your program is the result of:

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Business Intelligence

The need to remain competitive with others in the field

A program mandate

A recommendation from your major customer

You are one of the core team members developing the program charter for the next generation of medical imaging technology. There is significant market opportunity, but the competition is strong and the wrong technical approach could set the company back several years. To ensure that the program charter is viable, a best practice is to:

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Conduct a SWOT analysis

Conduct an assumptions analysis

Use the nominal group technique

Use an influence diagram

As the company's risk expert, you have been requested by the program Governance Board to perform a risk assessment on the Apex program, which includes more than $25$ projects. The focus of your assessment should be on:

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Analyzing response mechanisms for individual components

Ensuring that each project has a risk mitigation plan

Interprojects risks

Stakeholder risk tolerance and thresholds

You are the program manager on a multiyear, multimillion dollar transportation program for the provincial government. Funding for your program is allocated on a fiscal year basis, yet your program transcends multiple year