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Review: Program Management by Michel Thiry

“Thiry manages to capture the important differences between project and program management, handling them in a clear and logical manner”—Martin Vaughan reviews Michel Thiry’s ‘Program Management’.

August 31, 2012

Evaluating a program management office

Many organisations have contemplated or implemented program management as a means of managing interrelated projects within their organisation, with varying degrees of success. PM Oracles asks, how do you know its value?

August 16, 2012

Planning and tracking a program using MS Project

Martin Vaughan provides practical advice to those wishing to plan, track and report on a program of work using MS Project scheduling software.

July 31, 2012

Program Management

Is the PRINCE2 Project Board essential?

Central to the PRINCE2 conception of project management is a group of individuals who do not constitute part of the project team: the Project Board. Simon Buehring explains what a Project Board is and how it operates.

July 5, 2012

Program management for business

Program management expert Michel Thiry will run a specialist workshop on how programs can help businesses achieve their goals, providing step-by-step insight on implementing an effective program management strategy in any organisation.

June 25, 2012

News

The program management actors

In any program there are a number of expectations program managers should have of different stakeholders. This article by Michel Thiry will further detail the roles of the main program actors.

June 6, 2012

Program Management

Vision and the role of the project manager

What does Eurovision have in common with project management? No, not terrible singing and bad clothes (although there is that) but the capacity to unite. Case in point, one union’s vision versus the narrow mindedness of one contestant’s country: here’s the long and short (sighted) of it.

June 4, 2012

Blogs

Understanding the program management lifecycle

The objective of programs is to produce business level benefits by linking strategy to projects but little management rhetoric has made its way into program management literature and practice. Michel Thiry explains the program management lifecycle.

May 24, 2012