10.5. Program Management Processes: Model #4

The concept of a program is familiar to any person who has worked with or for the United States Department of Defense on various military programs or, on a worldwide basis, for those who have worked in information technology on software or hardware programs. In both commercial business and government organizations, the focus is on assembling various related and sometimes interdependent enterprise business objectives and related business unit actions items. A program is normally managed or overseen by a senior manager who resides in the business unit that is charged with its successful completion and is heavily involved with the work to be accomplished.

Program management is a subset of enterprise-wide ...

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