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This section is to provide resources and information about Program Management.

PMI / PMBOK Definition:

Program: A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Programs may include elements of related work outside of the scope of the discrete projects in the program.

Program Management: The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits.

Certification: Program Management Professional (PgMP)

Guide: The Standard for Program Management

OGC/ APMG / PRINCE2 Definition:

Programme: A temporary flexible organization structure created to coordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related projects and activities in order to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organization's strategic objectives. A programme is likely to have a life that spans several years.

Programme Management: Programme management is the co-ordinated management of related projects, which may include related business-as-usual activities that together achieve a beneficial change of a strategic nature for an organization. What constitutes a programme will vary across industries and business sectors but there are core programme management processes.

Certification: Management Successful Programmes Practitioner (MSP Practitioner)

Guide: Managing Successful Programmes

Description

Url
PMI's PgMP Handbook www.pmi.org/PDF/pdc_pgmphandbook.pdf
AMPG's Managing Successful Programme http://www.apmgroup.co.uk/MSP/MSPHome.asp
PMHut: Program management vs project management
 http://www.pmhut.com/how-program-management-differs-from-project-management
Official MSP website (OGC) http://www.msp-officialsite.com/home/Home.asp

Book

Author
The Standard for Program Management PMI
Managing Successful Programmes Office of Government Commerce
The Gower Handbook of Programme Management Geof Reiss, Malcolm Anthony, John Chapman, and Geoff Leigh
The Handbook of Program Management James T Brown
Program Management Michel Thiry, Valense Ltd, UK

 

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