Project HEADWAY: When Is A Program Really A Program?

 

Program management is recognized as its own framework and discipline. Program management is designed to support the delivery of significant, large-scale organizational initiatives that are too large, too complex and too complicated to mange as a single project.

Implicitly, then, programs have a lot of moving parts. The value of creating programs is that they provide a structure to manage the complexity and share accountability and responsibility for outcomes, while maintaining overall consistency of the final results.

The essential question that needs to be answered here—and a complex and elusive one—is when does something become large and complex enough that it should become a program? What is the threshold between large-but-attainable-project and complex-and-necessary-program? What are the guidelines for determining when the structure and support of program management actually makes sense?

Inevitably, the answer to this question has dimensions of “it depends.” More important, however, is the delineation of those factors that the answer depends upon. This webinar explores and tests the boundary between project and program, to provide practical, relevant and meaningful guidance on where project management can suffice and program management should optimally kick in.

If you are responsible for managing or overseeing large and complex initiatives, and you are wondering where and why program management becomes useful, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.

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