PgMP Practice Question
Your company has approved a multi-year digital-transformation program aimed at unifying data, modernizing customer channels, and automating back-office workflows.
After preliminary workshops with portfolio executives and functional leaders, you are asked to deliver a high-level road map and financial framework within four weeks so that the executive committee can decide whether to release strategic-initiative funding. Some stakeholders insist that you immediately create detailed work breakdown structures, assign individual resources, and capture weekly cost burn rates.
According to PMI program-management best practices, what is the primary purpose of producing the high-level road map and financial framework at this point in the life cycle?
Produce a detailed integrated master schedule with resource-levelled tasks and daily cost tracking for each constituent project.
Develop a comprehensive risk register with quantified response strategies for all known threats and opportunities.
Create a communications management plan specifying meeting cadences, reporting templates, and escalation paths for all stakeholders.
Establish a baseline that defines scope boundaries, major milestones, and an overall cost envelope against which subsequent program definition, planning, and execution can be measured.