George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Anyone with a real life experience delaing with Program Schedules? Want to share it?
You can be an experienced Project Scheduler and manage a perfer master schedule, yet dealing with a Program Schedule is always a challenge.
I can find much information around this topic, especifically around program schedules, there is around programs in general.
I'm sure those that have had experience with a the bigger picture and have had to perform as Schedule SME for both a particular Project and the over program schedule would know what I mean. Saving Changes...
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George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Program activities: The terms activity and activities have specifi c defi nitions and meaning when used in a project management context. PMI’s P MBOK ® G uide and PMI Lexicon of Project Management Terms defi ne activity as “A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.”
Within programs, however, there are many tasks and actions carried out by the program manager that are important to the forward progress of the program, although they are not “distinct, scheduled portions of work performed during the course of a project.” These may also be referred to as program activities. When used in the context of program management within this standard, these terms should be read as “program activity” and “program activities” and are not intended to imply the project management activity defi nition.
@from The Standard for Program Management - Third Edition. Saving Changes...
George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
@While project managers concentrate on managing their project’s deliverables to a baseline schedule, program managers concentrate on coordinating all of the component schedules within the program and integrating them to ensure the program itself completes on schedule. Rather than manage the details of any single project component, the program manager concentrates on the integration of each component project into the program master schedule and on the timely delivery of the program level components.
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George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
@Program managers monitor the progress of program components to ensure the overall goals, schedules, budget, and benefits of the program will be met.
@Using program management, organizations have the ability to align multiple projects for optimized or integrated costs, schedule, effort, and benefits. Program management focuses on project interdependencies and helps to determine the optimal approach for managing and realizing the desired benefits.
@Program schedule planning begins with the scope management plan and the program work breakdown structure whereby the program components that produce the program benefi ts are identified. The major program-level milestones and the order in which the components should be delivered are determined. The initial program master schedule is often created before the detailed schedules of the individual components are available. The program’s delivery date and major milestones are developed using the program roadmap and the program charter.
@The program master schedule is the top-level program document that defines the individual component schedules and dependencies between program components (individual projects and program level activities) required to achieve the program goal. It should include those component milestones that represent an output to the program or share interdependency with other components. Saving Changes...
