Are you a project manager who has recently been promoted to a program manager’s job? Are you an all-purpose manager who has been asked to run a program? Have you been promoted to a program manager’s role from some other program/project role?
If the answer to any of these questions is “YES”, then you should read this eBook. “Why”, you may ask.
Well, first of all, this eBook tells you what a program is and what the role of a program manager is. If you were a project manager before, it helps you unlearn the precepts of project management and learn the precepts of program management.
This eBook also tells you how to understand the big picture with respect to a program. To what strategic objective is the program tied? And how can the customer realize the benefits of the program.
Thirdly, you get to understand how to map out the stakeholders of the program, understand their interest and power structures and how to turn a hostile stakeholder into a friendly one.
You also get to know about program risks (as opposed to project risks) and mitigation techniques, change management in a program context, and also about commercials and tools and technologies.
This free eBook offers seven tips that covers the above aspects and helps program managers to do their jobs well.
Paramu Kurumathur is an avid reader of business and technical books. He has been exposed to various project and program management approaches and different technologies over decades. He has been working in the international software services industry and global IT management since 1980.
He is a keen traveler and has visited and stayed in around 40 countries.
His debut novel, The First Aryan, is in the process of being published by Penguin Random House.
Paramu is an alumnus of IIT, Madras. [B. Tech. (Aero. Engg.); M. Tech. (Comp. Sc.)]
His interests include project and program management, writing business books and novels, writing limericks and promoting humor as a way of life.
