Driving Clarity at the Program Level

Now let's discuss in more depth how to manage a program. As discussed earlier in this course, program management builds on the foundations of project management and utilizes the same key management areas. However, there are some differences, due to the larger scope and broader impact that a program has compared to a project within it, so both of these concepts play a substantial role in defining the differences in management techniques for each.

We’ll explore the following aspects of how to manage a program:

• Driving clarity at the program level

• Deciding when to build a program

• Tracking a program

Let’s begin!

Overview

In order to drive clarity at the program level, we need to ...