Is the Work a Project or a Program?
I meet lots of technical leads, project managers, and functional managers who claim to be working on seven, eight, nine, ten, twenty, and forty-seven projects. No one can manage that many projects. You might be attempting to manage or work on a program that’s not organized as a program.
Programs are collections of projects and work across the organization where the value is in the total deliverable. You might have valuable projects. And your organization recognizes more value when you organize all the projects together and deliver one product or system as a whole, the program.
When I see this problem—people working on many projects simultaneously—I ask questions to see if I can lump the work into any of ...
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