For clarity, with regard to this book we will define project management and program management as follows:

     Images   Project management is management of a group of activities or initiatives with a defined deliverable and a definite starting point and end point.

     Images   Program management is management of a group of projects and/or operations to achieve business targets, goals, or strategies and usually does not have a defined end point.

Unlike projects, programs may never end or may end only ...

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