Project Management for Small Projects, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

12 Projects as Part of a Program

Program management has become the recognized way of managing a group of related projects in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.¹ Project managers who work on projects within a program face new challenges.

The project environment becomes more complicated when project managers who are responsible for their own projects must work with other project managers as part of a program. Project managers who are proficient at managing and leading their own projects are increasingly being called upon to work collaboratively with other project managers to lead components ...