CHAPTER 4
Program Planning and Organizing
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
—George Edward Pelham Box (statistician and scientist)
One approach to dealing with the inherent complexity of programs is to develop a model of the work based on planning. Such models can be very useful in determining whether or not to proceed and how to do so. Program plans comprise multiple project plans, and modeling the overall program using these lower-level plans provides a powerful tool for understanding and organizing the work. For many reasons, however, it is never possible for a program plan based on such a model to be precisely accurate or predictive. Effective program management recognizes this and works to develop plans that will be ...
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