At the beginning of the second year of a five-year strategic cycle, the program management team attends a checkpoint session to review the state of the company's strategy. During the previous year, th

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Options

• AUpdate the program management, benefits management, and risk management plans, and
• BMeet with stakeholders, and modify the program roadmap to comply with the new regulations
• CObtain stakeholder approval to stop or postpone programs that fail to comply with the new
• DReview resource capacity and capability, program priorities, and interdependencies, and

• A
  30% (8)
• B
  15% (4)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  52% (14)

Explanation

A checkpoint session at the start of a new strategic cycle year is a formal review gate - not a reactive planning session. The program manager's primary responsibility at this point is to assess the current state of the program environment: resource capacity and capability, program priorities, and interdependencies. The regulatory compliance already occurred in the prior year. Options A and B describe reactive actions that would be appropriate only after the checkpoint review reveals specific issues. Option C (stopping programs) is too drastic without a proper review first. Option D represents the standard program governance checkpoint activity - evaluating what resources and priorities need realignment going forward.

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