Program Management

World-Class Program Management

Program management traditionally requires balancing a company's attainment of multiple interdependent projects and activities against the cost of completing the program. Resource costs managed within programs fall into four major categories: human, machine, materials, and capital. Traditionally, program managers have assumed additional costs in order to meet scheduled deadlines. World-Class Program Management calls for the extension of such analysis to account for the program constraints and subsequent trade offs both internally and across multiple organizations in collaborative relationships. World-Class Program Management recognizes that a constraint that exists for a firm within the program may be alleviated through collaborative activity between two or more organizations at a far lower total cost. To achieve these world-class goals, program managers must collaborate with others in the organization and across the collaborative enterprise.

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