Benefits Management Benefits management involves identifying, planning, measuring and tracking benefits from the start of the programme or project investment until realisation of the last projected benefit. It aims to make sure that the desired benefits are specific, measurable, agreed, realistic and time bounded. The term benefits management...

The process ‘defining a program’ provides the basis for deciding whether or not to proceed with the program. The inputs, controls, roles, steps and outputs of this process are as follows: Let us discuss the inputs to this process. [contact-form-7 id="76417" title="Subscriber Demo Form"] Inputs of the Process in Defining a...

Risk Risk can be defined as an uncertain event or a set of events which have an impact on the achievement of the objectives. This effect need not be detrimental.A risk can either be a threat, an uncertain event with a negative impact on benefits, or an opportunity, an uncertain event that could have a favorable impact on the objectives or...

Project Integration management is mainly concerned with the processes required to ensure that the various activities of the project are co-ordinated properly.In other words, Project Integration Management process comprise of activities like identifying, defining, combining, and coordinating various processes related to project. Need For...

Planning and control is a governance theme that involves the preparation of different governance frameworks and information baselines. The major information baselines covered under this theme are as follows: Program plan,Resource management,Information strategies andCorresponding plans. Planning and Control  Following are the...

Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance. In practice and in its aims, program management is often closely related to systems engineering, industrial engineering, change management, and business transformation. In the defense...

What is strategy? Understanding strategic alignment starts with understanding what strategy really is. Most people think of “vision statements” and “mission statements” as being “strategy” but they are only a small part of the “strategy story”. Your mission and vision are simply statements about what your organization is for...

What is Project? A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is defined as temporary because it has a defined beginning and end time, and it is unique because it has a particular set of operations designed to accomplish a goal The primary characteristics of a project are It has a...

Project governance is an oversight function aligned with the organization’s governance model, and that encompasses the project life cycle. It provides the project manager and team with structure, processes, decision-making models and tools for managing and controlling the project while ensuring successful delivery of the project also....

Most books and guides on program management written in the last 10 years have suggested program ‘phases’, which are simply transpositions of the project linear perspective. This view can jeopardise the effectiveness of program management and its capability to deliver strategies. Although it is now agreed that the objective of programs is to...