Implementing Program Management, 3rd Edition

Chapter 1

Introduction

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

—Jim Rohn

This book is a workbook for successful program management. Success is program management requires discipline—the kind of discipline that results in repeatability of success. It requires appropriately complete plans, well-run meetings with meaningful agendas, accurate record keeping, and general adherence to global best practices. Toward those ends, this book is a compendium of plans, forms, agendas, registers, and procedures.

This work is specifically designed to be compatible with and is a supplementary to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI^®) Standard for Program Management—Third Edition (2013). Starting out to produce artifact prototypes ...