How to Manage Complex Programs

How to Manage Complex Programs
Author: Tom Kendrick
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814436935

To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks…and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple project teams and thousands of activities, program managers have one of the most challenging jobs in the market. Too many overburdened managers are leaving otherwise great jobs, even the field entirely, because they haven’t equipped themselves with the right tools in hand to take on this complex but fulfilling job. Complete with diagrams, graphs, and real-life examples, How to Manage Complex Programs explains the ins and outs of program management and provides concrete and effective techniques for structuring deliverables, workflow, and staffing. You will learn to: Decompose complex deliverables into manageable chunks Develop coherent plans for component projects Handle cross-project dependencies Organize program staff and project leaders into a high-performing team Yes, program management is challenging but the most rewarding jobs always are. Don’t let yourself become overburdened and tempted to leave a field in high demand of hard workers such as yourself. These proven strategies are the key to finding both relief and success!

Power in Projects, Programs and Portfolios

Power in Projects, Programs and Portfolios
Author: John Ryding Olsson
Publisher: Djoef Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Magt-organisationer
ISBN: 9788757434095

Power in Projects, Programs, and Portfolios is the best-selling Danish project management book that highlights the immensely successful Scandinavian approach to leadership within project management, and it takes a more holistic approach to project work and project management. The authoritative book deals with classic project management disciplines and focuses on the essential link between strategic priorities, any program's impact and a project's powerful execution. It takes an in-depth look at areas such as change management, change communication, benefit tracking, program management, and portfolio management. The book offers a large number of practical tools within projects management and leadership with on-line access to concrete and easy-to-use practical tools and templates. Recent years have seen a pronounced increase in the need for professional project management and the careful handling of associated portfolios. This success is essential as key projects become ever more vital for the development and survival of organizations. It is no longer enough for projects to 'just' produce a set of deliverables. They are expected to make a genuine difference within the organization and effect that organization's role in the wider world. Consequently, project management is not just about project managers, it's about how senior management handles crucial portfolios successfully as well. Such active project management requires power, strength, drive, and energy, not only within the individual project itself, but also within the organization's programs and entire project portfolio. It places new demands on both the project manager and their senior management. To access accompanying tools, please visit https: //www.djoef-forlag.dk/sites/powertools/ [Subject: Project Management, Business

The Big Book of Small Python Projects

The Big Book of Small Python Projects
Author: Al Sweigart
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1718501242

Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity. If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You’ll create: • Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer • Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus • Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver • A first-person 3D maze game • Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!

Managing Health Programs and Projects

Managing Health Programs and Projects
Author: Beaufort B. Longest, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004-06-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0787975362

This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects. The book explores the decision-making process, defines the process of communicating, probes the fundamentals of program planning, explains budgeting, covers staffing for programs and projects, and explains how leaders motivate participants in health programs and projects.

Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects

Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects
Author: Project Management Institute
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1628251107

Understanding governance as it applies to portfolios, programs, and projects is growing in importance to organizations, because appropriate governance is a factor in the success or failure of strategic initiatives and portfolios, as well as an organization's programs and projects. Implementing an effective governance framework can be challenging due to factors such as increasing business complexities, regulatory requirements, globalization, and rapid changes in technology and business environments. Many organizations do not have a consistent approach to portfolio, program, and project governance. PMI's Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide, developed by leading experts in the field, provides guidance to organizations and practitioners on how to implement or enhance governance on portfolios, programs, and projects. This practice guide provides definitions for governance in an effort to distinguish the different levels of governance and to identify their common elements.

Projects, Programs, and Portfolios in Strategic Organizational Transformation

Projects, Programs, and Portfolios in Strategic Organizational Transformation
Author: James Jiang
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1949443817

This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation. Projects are a part of everyday life in an organization. Tools and procedures for project management are well understood and applied. However, the management of projects by an organization for substantial transformation is less certain in both practice and study. An awareness of how to manage increasingly complex projects, and collections of projects, to achieve the benefits of organizational transformation becomes ever more crucial in the implementation of new strategies. This book goes beyond a simple review of tools and techniques common in most publications of project management. We illustrate how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation. The linkages among projects, operations, and the foundations of an organization provide a perspective of how an organization might pursue the difficult changes required of comprehensive transformation. The fashion in which the project world interacts with the executive world through successive layers of project management principles is prelude to operational benefits realization.

The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects

The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects
Author: Project Management Institute
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1628255668

This is an update and expansion upon PMI's popular reference, The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management. Risk Management addresses the fact that certain events or conditions may occur with impacts on project, program, and portfolio objectives. This standard will: identify the core principles for risk management; describe the fundamentals of risk management and the environment within which it is carried out; define the risk management life cycle; and apply risk management principles to the portfolio, program, and project domains within the context of an enterprise risk management approach It is primarily written for portfolio, program, and project managers, but is a useful tool for leaders and business consumers of risk management, and other stakeholders.

From Projects to Programs

From Projects to Programs
Author: Samir Penkar
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146659182X

This book tells the story of an up-and-coming project manager that's been handed a large program to lead. Readers follow along as she struggles, leads, stumbles, and grows into the program manager role. Introducing key program management concepts throughout, the book provides a backstage view into the workings of program management, program organization, team dynamics, and the skills required to manage programs. Told through the eyes of a program manager, readers will experience the ins and outs of program management.

Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects

Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects
Author: Russell D. Archibald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471265573

A well-known author within the field: Russell Archibald is widely known in the project management field. He helped to found the Project Management Institute, and he is a former principal with Integrated Project Systems, a consulting firm that specializes in process and system implementation and training in project management for high-tech corporations and agencies. * The definitive book on managing high-tech initiatives: This book fulfills a long-standing need for a comprehensive, practical and unified description of the business of managing complex programs and projects. It provides detailed coverage of all aspects of complex project management, with emphasis on those involving advanced technology.