Chapter 2Zoom in on Projects
Project management and program management are related disciplines, but with a different focus. While project management focuses on a short-term effort to produce a specific thing, program management focuses on an ongoing cross-functional effort to deliver a result. Since you’re doing program management in an open source community, you’ll probably find yourself spending some time on project management, too. So what’s the difference?
The distinction between the two disciplines is less clear in the fluid and loosely structured context of an open source community. For example, a specific software release is technically a project within the larger program, but most communities won’t draw that distinction. Given that, ...
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