Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy: Realizing Corporate Strategy Through Project Management

Programs

Murray-Webster and Thiry (2000) suggest that the discipline of program management is emerging as a fundamental method of ensuring that an organization gains the maximum benefit from the integration of project management activities. They suggest that program management can be characterized as more iterative than single shot project management and that it involves more strategic reflection. Thiry (2004) emphasizes the importance of learning, namely that program strategy is shaped as the organization learns from the projects it delivers.

There is quite a degree of confusion in the literature—and in practice—over just what is involved in program management. Some define it primarily as a collection of interrelated projects and several perspectives ...