In this Program Management 101, you’ll learn what Program Management is, what the main Program Management disciplines are, the Program lifecycle, and my top 7 Program Management principles.
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A temporary endeavor that delivers a strategic transformation by coordinating a group of related projects, smaller programs, and other activities, to deliver benefits to the sponsoring organization.
It is likely to span several years, and the activities will be related through things like:
Uncertainty is deeply ingrained in the nature of a program. They span many years and multiple initiatives. During that time, opportunities arise and the organizations situation will shift. As a result, Program Managers will need to shift activities in and out of the program envelope, and alter the details of ongoing projects. Programs made use of the concept of agility – though not the word – before the Agile Manifesto was dreamt of!
Program Management is the application of methods, processes, and knowledge to deliver a program and its planned benefits, across all constituent activities.
Long before we started talking about value and benefits management in Projects, they were at the core of Program Management. Benefits are outcomes that stakeholders will perceive as improvements.
Program Benefits Management is one of the 5 Performance Domains of the PMI’s Standard for Program Management (4th Edition) and Benefits realization management is one of the 7 Governance Themes of the UK Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) methodology. And the starting place for this is the strategic nature of Programs and the direct link to corporate strategy and objectives.
Benefit and value delivery are therefore the only meaningful measure of program success. Value is a measure of the surplus of benefits over total cost, either:
For more on value, see my video, What is Value?
To understand this linkage better, do take a look at our video, Project Portfolio Management: How to Craft a Portfolio in 5 Steps.
I will go with 5 core disciplines
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My principles
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Program Management 101: Your Introductory Guide to Program Management Click To TweetDr Mike Clayton is one of the most successful and in-demand project management trainers in the UK. He is author of 14 best-selling books, including four about project management. He is also a prolific blogger and contributor to ProjectManager.com and Project, the journal of the Association for Project Management. Between 1990 and 2002, Mike was a successful project manager, leading large project teams and delivering complex projects. In 2016, Mike launched OnlinePMCourses.
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