Program Management
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What is the difference between projects, programs, and portfolios?
As a certified project manager and portfolio manager, I am often asked, what is the difference between project, program, and portfolio management? The way I explained it is to use the metaphor of a musical concert series, and it goes…
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Program Management: Why you should have a strategic plan?
Strategic plans are often created for organizations and individual departments within those organizations. Often that is where strategic plans come to a halt. There are however times that strategic plans should be created and one of them is in program…
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Creating learning organizations by using program management
Creating learning organizations by using program management. “Projects are one-time efforts in the organizations. As they are finished, all the resources including the people are adjourned. Then what happens to the knowledge gained by these people. What remains to the…
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Why the confusion around Agile in the software development community?
Agile is a term that generates heated debates within the project management and software development communities. This is because not everyone really understands what Agile is, and many people use the term very loosely and mix it up with project…
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Leaders leading leaders
Program Management presents unique challenges in leadership as the primary team members are elite leaders. Programs are responsible for managing multiple projects, and operational efforts, to achieve benefits not available by managing projects separately. Therefore, Program Managers will set the…
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Leaders leading leaders
Program Management presents unique challenges in leadership as the primary team members are elite leaders. Programs are responsible for managing multiple projects, and operational efforts, to achieve benefits not available by managing projects separately. Therefore, Program Managers will set the…
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The benefits of program management
Before we dive into the benefits of program management, we need to make sure we understand what program management is. The Project Management Institute defines program management as “A group of related projects managed in a coordinated manner to obtain…
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What are the real enablers behind projects and programs?
In the project management challenge 2007 video below, Scott Horowitz, a former astronaut and NASA associate administrator for the exploration systems mission once said; “People ask me, having flown on the shuttle four times, what makes the shuttle go up?”…
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Successful programs require a healthy culture
Program Management requires a partnership with project managers to create a culture of success for the program and the individual teams. This is often very difficult as each project manager will create a project culture that aligns with their preferred…
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How to run programs and increase resilience during coronavirus?
The spread of the coronavirus has quickly become one of the biggest threats to the global economy and financial markets. The disease is spreading so rapidly around the world, as shown in Figure 1, which illustrates that confirmed cases reached…
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