Chapter 1. Overview : program management in the department of defense (DoD)/high technology environment -- chapter 2. Learning the ropes : understanding the culture, the customer, and the program capabilities -- chapter 3. Identifying opportunities -- chapter 4. Pre-proposal work -- chapter 5....

Chapter 1. What got you here will not work now -- chapter 2. Preparing for your leadership -- chapter 3. Understanding your organizational structure -- chapter 4. Gaining influence through volunteering -- chapter 5. Building your coalition -- chapter 6. Gaining influence -- chapter 7. Leadership...

Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgments -- Innovations are achieved through projects -- The essence of the key project management concepts -- Categories and characteristics of projects -- Project portfolio management -- Project management offices (pmos)...

Ch. 1. Context for change -- ch. 2. It all commences with strategy! Project portfolio management -- ch. 3. The core of program management -- benefits management -- ch. 4. Project management -- delivery enabler for change -- ch. 5. Change initiative integration into operations -- transition...

"Prologue Organizations form programs to achieve strategic objectives that help them grow and perform more effectively and efficiently. The importance of these initiatives is such that an oversight function is required from executive management, whose role is to monitor the program ensuring that...

"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new:...