Fundamentals of Effective Program Management: A Process Approach Based on the Global Standard

摘要

Since many organizations have embraced project management and are operating in a management-by-projects context, it is only natural that program management has emerged as a discipline of its own. Through program management and effective grouping of projects into programs to obtain greater benefits than when projects are managed in a stand-alone fashion, organizations are able to increase effectiveness and efficiency, not to mention customer satisfaction. Dr. Paul Sanghera has written an outstanding reference guide to program management complementing the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) The Practice Standard for Program Management (2004). Following the issuance of the standard, PMI launched a Program Management Professional (PgMP~®) credential in 2007. Sanghera's book provides many insights intornthe concepts discussed in the standard and is especially useful with the examples that are provided.