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| | Description | The Standard for Program Management – Second Edition continues to recognize good practices for managing multiple projects and programs successfully with even more knowledge areas and processes.What’s new?* Nine new Knowledge Areas, including Program Financial Management, Stakeholder Management and Program Governance. This helps ensure proper metrics are developed so that organizations can successfully manage large and complex programs.*14 new processes.Start meeting your standards for better project performance. | |
| | Product Details | | Paperback: | 109 pages | | Publisher: | Project Management Institute | | Publication Date: | 2006-06 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1930699549 | | Package Length: | 10.7 inches | | Package Width: | 8.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.84 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Very High Level Jun 26, 2007
By Craig Humphreys
"BearH"
Complex and very high level. Doesn't give practical examples to program managemment. The concepts are easily understood but the implementation detail is very limited. I'll be looking for a book that complements this standard with practical examples and advise in applying the concepts of the standard.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent standard - unless you're just prepping for the exam Aug 04, 2008
By Douglas Brown
As a program managers' guide this is an excellent book. Given a few hours of thought you can follow it along to a decent program office roll-out.
As a study guide for the PGMP exam, which is supposed to be based on the standard, you're going to be pretty confused. The PGMP exam is nothing like the PMP exam, with its rigid focus on what processes are sub-sets of other processes. For the exam, the main take-aways from this standard are its constant references to: the business-benefit link, to the need for governance, and of course PMI's constant (and usually, tragically, ignored) pleas for the use of a WBS. Those are the only parts you will recognize again on the exam.
Of course you need to read the standard before taking the exam. Ironically, however, this standard is actually considerably more useful as an operational program management reference - which, of course, is what the standard is really meant for. So kudos to the folks who put it together.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
All right for first version... Sep 23, 2007
By Naomi Wong
I do not expect examples in a Standard. But it's too short and incomplete. For example, there are no tools and techniques for the processes. Also there are some silly errors which could have been corrected by a careful copy editing. I hope PMI does a better job in the second version of this standard.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Second Revision is a big improvement! Jul 31, 2009
By Glenn Strausser
Project Management Institute issued the second revision of their program management standard in December 2008. The second edition is a significant improvement over the first edition published in 2006. Detailed changes are noted in an Appendix A to the standard, but in general, this is a totally new document, not merely a revision. The standard is now 324 pages, versus 109 pages, themes were deleted, knowledge areas added, and other major modifications were performed.
PMI's The Standard for Program Management - Second Edition is linear in approach, with very generic good practice recommendations. It assumes that the entire scope of the program is known early on, which is not true in all programs, or it plans for an R&D type phase that will answer the outstanding questions. The standard is very non-prescriptive in nature, allowing the implementing organization to create the best implementation method. This type of standard is helpful, but requires significant organizational expertise to help the implementation process.
For those who are looking for a methodolgy to implement see Office of Government Commerce, (2007), Managing Successful Programmes: Delivering Business Change in Multi-project Environments Book, 8th impression, The Stationery Office, Norwich, UK. It is a very good method of implementing program management in an organization and is in line with PMI's standard.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
One of the best PMO books. Definitely useful than PMBOK May 04, 2010
By G. Jahangir
Contrary to my own belief, this is actually not bad of a guide for program management. I definitely used this book and some of the references to create a deck that I presented to senior managers. They found the content to be very useful.
I think PMI did a great job in this book than the PMBOK, which is definitely a good bed time material. This book is well written and flows nicely. I didnt expect that I will actually like this book and use it for anything beyond just knowledge but I found that some of the graphics are helpful and can be used for presentations. That to me along with the deep and thorough practical examples made this book a 4 star.
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