Program Management
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Program Management
1) Beginning
2) The Corporate
Impediments
3) The Industry
Impediments
4) A New Way
of Thinking
5) Elements of
Program Management
6) Why the need for a
new “class” of vendors?
7) A Better Way
Definition of Program Managementline
For purposes of this discussion, the concept of “Program Management” encompasses all of the knowledge and tasks needed in order to plan and execute a complete facilities strategy so as to best support a company's business objectives. This includes a new kind of professional facilitating expert, the Program Director, who implements a “knowledge-based” system for integrating all expertise on a project and driving defined goals and objectives.
For multi-location companies, the concept additionally encompasses the utilization of a common project delivery team across multiple assignments. Program Management seeks to permanently aggregate, centralize and physically collocate the strategically important team roles (the possessors of key knowledge), and then supplement those people with best-in-class local resources selected on a project-by-project basis to perform tasks better suited to local execution.
