Assembling the Core Program Team

Who is the core program team?

Getting the necessary stakeholders involved early on accelerates the initial velocity of your program.

Your first focus in program initiation is to assemble the 1st-degree stakeholders and the core program team. This team will own most of the engineering and product decisions.

One of the most important, straightforward things to remember: not all stakeholders are the same.

We'll explore stakeholder management in a future lesson, but during the initiation phase of a program, it is essential that you:

• Partner with the executive sponsor. It may not be an actual executive, but this person takes primary ...