An organization must accelerate a product to market. The program manager completes the preliminary program steps and holds a kick-off meeting. Project managers submit their preliminary schedules for r

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Options

• AAssign resources to the schedule and report the revised delivery date to the project
• BWork with the project managers to refine the project schedules and deliverables to align with
• CRevise the project schedules to meet the program schedule and communicate to
• DIntegrate the project schedules into the program schedule and report the revised delivery date

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  76% (31)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  15% (6)

Explanation

After project managers submit their preliminary schedules, the program manager's next logical step is collaborative refinement - working WITH the project managers to align their schedules and deliverables to the overall program goals and timeline. This collaborative approach (B) respects the project managers' ownership of their plans while ensuring program-level alignment. Option D (integrating schedules and reporting a delivery date) is premature because the schedules haven't been refined or aligned yet. Option C is wrong because unilaterally revising schedules bypasses the project managers. Option A (assigning resources) is also premature at this stage. The sequence is: receive preliminary schedules → refine collaboratively → integrate → report.

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