PgMP Practice Question
A global financial-services firm is running a three-year digital-transformation program made up of five constituent projects: (1) a new mobile-banking app, (2) open-banking API integration, (3) data-lake modernization, (4) cybersecurity hardening, and (5) customer-analytics enablement. During an integrated-schedule review, the program manager discovers that the API and mobile-app teams are each building separate customer-authentication modules, while the data-lake and analytics teams are individually negotiating cloud-storage contracts. The benefits-realization plan forecasts a 10 % cost saving by re-using shared technical components, and the steering committee expects quarterly dashboards showing how such efficiencies are being captured. To maximize the newly identified synergies, keep the benefits register current, and satisfy stakeholder information needs, what should the program manager do next?
Establish a shared authentication and storage workstream right away, revise the benefits-realization plan and dashboard, and brief the steering committee at the next governance meeting.
Require every project manager to compute individual cost-benefit ratios and submit them for aggregation before any integration decision is made.
Seek sponsor approval to defer realignment until each project finishes detailed design, revisiting efficiencies during the next phase-gate review.
Distribute a survey to all stakeholders for additional efficiency ideas and postpone integration decisions until the responses are analyzed.