Planning Wrap-up

Let's look at the highlights of the planning phase.

Create a program hub

At this point in the program lifecycle, you have created the program charter and the program plan. The program plan adds at least three new artifacts:

  • The WBS

  • The roadmap

  • The RAID log

Both the charter and the plan contain critical information for many stakeholders. Time to flex your organizational skills as a technical program manager! You have the responsibility to make all the program artifacts easily discoverable.

Centralize these artifacts into some sort of program hub for easy discoverability.

This can be accomplished in multiple ways: a shared drive, a doc providing links to everything, a landing page within Confluence, and so on. Whatever method you choose, ensure everyone can access the one-stop shop for program information.

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