APPENDIX C
Project and Program Life Cycles
The basic project life cycle is easy to understand: The project is initiated, planned, performed, and closed. But like many concepts in project management, successfully fulfilling the project life cycle is more difficult than it would seem.
A program life cycle is very much like a project life cycle, only on a bigger scale, incorporating multiple projects. It is easy to confuse programs and projects because of their life-cycle commonality and the way the term “program” is frequently interchanged with the term “project.” This appendix describes each life cycle in detail.
PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
Projects have ...
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