Chapter 19
Managing Projects within a Programme: Delivering Capability
In This Chapter
Examining the role of your programme people in projects
Helping to start projects
Monitoring existing projects
Closing projects smoothly
Programme management makes project management more efficient by helping to kick-off individual or groups of projects, providing a helpful environment around projects while they're running and assisting closure.
In this chapter I continue my Star Trek analogy from Chapter 18 (hurrah!), but switch focus from the captain's chair to all those keen young people who're controlling the Starship Enterprise. To be more prosaic, you're leaving your cubicle (co-located with the Programme Office), where you've been chatting with the SRO and some Business Change Managers, and having a look at what your staff members in the Programme Office are doing. Some of them are helping projects to deliver capability.
I look at how you in the programme can help projects to deliver: how you can turn your programme into a project factory where project outputs slip easily off the production ...
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