46. How can I best deal with project teams larger than twenty?

Very large projects are most successfully treated as programs, a collection of related but largely autonomous projects responsible for bits and pieces of the overall objective. Even more than on smaller projects, a program will benefit organizationally from a start-up or launch meeting, as described in Problem 25. Establishing a program team infrastructure is also essential, as discussed in Problem 26. This problem focuses on the structural hierarchy, communications, and team interactions useful in running a complex program.

Establishing a Program Hierarchy

Program management uses a hierarchy of interrelated projects to minimize and control the complexity, assigning the required large ...

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