From the course: Program Management Foundations (2019)

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Developing the program plan

Developing the program plan

From the course: Program Management Foundations (2019)

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Developing the program plan

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- In a program, there will be multiple projects running concurrently, lots of communications, transition, assurance, resource management, and benefits management activities. As well as other activities, all happening over a long period of time. It's a pretty busy environment. So it'll be essential to have a way of planning, tracking and controlling all of these activities. And for that, you need a program plan. The program manager creates the program plan during the definition phase of the program life cycle, after the target operating model and benefits. During the delivery phases, the program plan is used to track and control progress, and will be updated regularly to show this. There will also be phase reviews carried out, and the updated plan will be an essential input for decision making at these reviews. There are two important contributors to the program plan. One is the target operating model. When the gap analysis has been completed, the projects will be identified to fill…

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