Program Management(PgM)
The need for program management: Lessons from a war-zone
Project managers could learn a thing or two about program management from the relief and rehabilitation efforts that began in fall 2002 in post-war Iraq . What happened with the constantly changing reality on the ground, and huge funding coming in, was that disparate government agencies started off optimistically chartering reconstruction projects all across the country. Continue Reading
Program Management for India development in budget 2009
Program Management for nation building
As a citizen and as a business professional, it’s hard not to worry about the enormous development issues in this country. For me, it’s a challenge about thinking through the big picture. Here’s why you should be worried too: with the government spending over Rs.51,000 crore of taxpayer’s money on national projects, its time someone started asking the right questions:
- Where is the money going?
- How do we know if it’s doing any good?
Necessary but not sufficient
‘The visions and initiatives required for managing large business transformations are sorely lacking’, a senior IT manager confides with me. Other professionals managing multiple projects have also come to feel that an emerging discipline such as Program Management is being meaninglessly confused with the management of large projects.
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