A Concise Guide to Program Management: Fundamental Concepts and Issues Publisher: Purdue University | Pages: 176 | 2004-08-18 | ISBN 1557533768 | PDF | 1 MB
Program Management or Project Management, which we will use synonymously and later differentiate between, has been around since the beginning of time. The only difference between 300 B.C. and now is that we have crystallized and subsequently formalized our understanding of the many activities we must perform if we wish to bring continuity to our program management practices and therefore increase our opportunities for success.
Many times over my years of teaching program management, the class participants have discovered that program management is not necessarily for rocket scientists—although they ideally adhere to the basic principles of it. Instead, the basic activities and products of the program management process are followed, or at least thought about, in every single decision made. It’s true! As we move through the program management process, it will become increasingly obvious that we do, in fact, at least think through the various activities of the process, if perhaps for only a few seconds at each point along the way.
Let’s take the example of planting a garden. One of the first things we do is to think about how nice a garden might look if planted in that ideal spot in our back or front yards. This concept of “visualizing” is what we might call our “operational perspective.” In other words, at this point we are simply collecting our thoughts on why we might want to plant such a garden.
Posts
0 Responses to "A Concise Guide to Program Management: Fundamental Concepts and Issues"