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Program Management Professional (PgMP)®

PMI professional certification recognizing advanced experience, skill and performance in coordinating multiple related projects toward organizational objectives.

Licensing authority: Project Management Institute · Application information

Initial by examination
PgMP examination
Applicability
The current official PgMP page links the submitted March 2024 ECO and 11 March 2024 handbook and continues to offer this route; no exact official route/credential commencement or retirement day is published in these sources, so date boundaries remain null.
Application And Panel
Submit the application and experience summaries, complete any selected audit, pay the certification fee and pass the experience-based panel review before scheduling the multiple-choice examination. Panel review is not registered as a separate examination.
Attempts
One-year examination eligibility period; up to three attempts within that period.
Eligibility Alternatives
[{"education":"High school or secondary school diploma (or global equivalent)","programExperience":"84 months/7 years of program management experience within the past 15 years","projectQualification":"48 months/4 years of project management experience or PMP within the past 15 years"},{"education":"Bachelor's degree or higher (or global equivalent)","programExperience":"48 months/4 years of program management experience within the past 15 years","projectQualification":"48 months/4 years of project management experience or PMP within the past 15 years"},{"education":"Bachelor’s degree or higher (or global equivalent) from a GAC accredited program","programExperience":"36 months/3 years of program management experience within the past 15 years","projectQualification":"36 months/3 years project management experience or PMP within the past 15 years"}]
Evidence Claim Ids
["pgmp-route-conditions-20261024","pgmp-registration-20261024"]
Experience
The handbook requires unique non-overlapping professional project and program experience; its eligibility table and the current page agree on the three alternatives. Active PMP substitutes for the project-experience record; it is an applicant qualification alternative, not a mandatory PMP examination dependency.

PgMP examination

Format
Multiple-choice questions, including situational and scenario-based questions.
Exam questions
Total questions: 170; Scored questions: 150; Unscored questions: 20; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit
240 minutes
Examination outline
  • Strategic Program Alignment (15%)
    • Task 1: Initial program assessment
    • Task 2: High-level road map and initial approval
    • Task 3: Road map and financial framework baseline
    • Task 4: Program mission statement
    • Task 5: Evaluate the business case
    • Task 6: Analyze strategies, influences, drivers and expected benefits
    • Task 7: Estimate financial and nonfinancial benefits
    • Task 8: Evaluate regulatory, legal, social, sustainability, cultural, political and ethical considerations
    • Task 9: Obtain program authorization
    • Task 10: Integration opportunities and needs
    • Task 11: Strategic opportunities for change
    • Knowledge Specific to Domain I
  • Program Life Cycle Management (44%)
    • Task 1: Develop the program charter
    • Task 2: Translate strategy into high-level scope
    • Task 3: Develop the program roadmap
    • Task 4: Responsibility assignment matrix
    • Task 5: Measurement criteria and review points
    • Task 6: Program kick-off
    • Task 7: Detailed program scope statement
    • Task 8: Program work breakdown structure
    • Task 9: Integrated program management plan and schedule
    • Task 10: Optimize and level resources
    • Task 11: Define the project/program management information system
    • Task 12: Unresolved project-level issues
    • Task 13: Benefits integration, transition and sustainment planning
    • Task 14: KPIs and scope/quality management
    • Task 15: Monitor resources and improve motivation
    • Task 16: Charter and initiate constituent projects/components
    • Task 17: Deploy consistent governance and standards
    • Task 18: Communication feedback and reporting
    • Task 19: Training, coaching, mentoring and recognition
    • Task 20: Review project manager performance
    • Task 21: Execute program management plans
    • Task 22: Consolidate project and program data
    • Task 23: Evaluate program status
    • Task 24: Approve constituent closure
    • Task 25: Analyze variances and trends
    • Task 26: Incorporate corrective actions
    • Task 27: Manage program-level issues
    • Task 28: Manage changes
    • Task 29: Change impact assessments and decisions
    • Task 30: Manage risk
    • Task 31: Program performance analysis report
    • Task 32: Program closure within governance
    • Task 33: Transition and close-out
    • Task 34: Post-review meetings
    • Task 35: Report and archive lessons learned
    • Knowledge Specific to Domain II
  • Benefits Management (11%)
    • Task 1: Benefits realization plan and measurement criteria
    • Task 2: Capture synergies and efficiencies
    • Task 3: Benefits sustainment plan
    • Task 4: Monitor metrics and take corrective actions
    • Task 5: Verify close, transition and integration
    • Task 6: Maintain benefits register and report progress
    • Task 7: Update realization and sustainment plans for uncertainty and risk
    • Task 8: Transition to operations
    • Knowledge Specific to Domain III
  • Stakeholder Engagement (16%)
    • Task 1: Identify stakeholders and create a matrix
    • Task 2: Stakeholder analysis and engagement plan
    • Task 3: Negotiate support, expectations and acceptance criteria
    • Task 4: Maintain visibility and support
    • Task 5: Adapt communications
    • Task 6: Incorporate stakeholder risks
    • Task 7: Develop stakeholder relationships
    • Knowledge Specific to Domain IV
  • Governance (14%)
    • Task 1: Management standards and structure
    • Task 2: Select governance framework
    • Task 3: Stage gate authorizations
    • Task 4: Evaluate KPIs throughout the life cycle
    • Task 5: Integrate processes and management information systems
    • Task 6: Evaluate risks and obtain governance approval
    • Task 7: Escalation policies and procedures
    • Task 8: Program information repository
    • Task 9: Apply lessons learned
    • Task 10: Monitor business environment, functionality and benefits
    • Task 11: Integration management plan
    • Knowledge Specific to Domain V
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