Tracking a program
A program has the same key management areas as a project and each one has additional aspects to consider given the larger scope and impact. We’ll touch on each of these key management areas:
- Program planning
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
Program planning
Regardless of how the program came to be, the key requirements in the planning stage remain the same. The reason that a program exists is to facilitate multiple projects in achieving a common set of goals. The most important step for a program is to define a common set of goals.
If the program is being created from the beginning and no project has started, this is a straightforward task as the requirements as a whole will tell you what the end goals will be. Each project would then take a subset of these requirements to form its own goals. In the case of the Mercury program, the requirements stated that the Mercury application needed to be available to 90% of the user...
