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Preface
As two of the rst individuals to attain the Project Management
Institute’s (PMI) Program Management Professional (PgMP®)
credential, we recognized in our studying of the PMI Program
Management Standard (2006) and other key literature in the eld,
that little attention had been paid to the topic of complexity in pro-
gram management. While both the rst and second editions of the
PMI’s e Standard for Program Management (PMI, 2006, 2008b)
note the importance of managing the projects in a program in a coor-
dinated way to ensure that program benets are achieved, neither edi-
tion addresses the complexity inherent in the interdependencies of
such projects. Moreover, the topic of the com ...