Implementing Program Management, 3rd Edition

Preface

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

—Winston Churchill

Many of the most successful organizations worldwide have specific program management templates that they treat as carefully guarded trade secrets and consider critical to their consistent success. At this writing, it is difficult to find examples of many of the documents referenced in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI^®) The Standard for Program Management—Third Edition (2013), released December 31, 2012. When we do find roughly comparable documents here and there, they overlap or are intended for specific situations or even atypical definitions of project or program management. What is a practitioner supposed to do? What is supposed to be in ...