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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 of a program. This means that the project manager no longer has full control of all project ...
