PowerSteering Presents: Best Practices in Program Management

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Best Practices of Program Management Kimberly Gohrband, PMP PowerSteering Product Manager

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Best Practices of Program ManagementKimberly Gohrband, PMPPowerSteering Product Manager

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Agenda

Introductions

What is a Program?

Benefits of Program Management

Program Management Success Factors

PowerSteering and Program Management

Program Management Maturity

Roadmap

Final Questions

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What is a Program?

“A group of related projects, subprograms, and

program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not

available from managing them individually.”

Project Management Institute

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Benefit of Program Management

What’s In It for Me? Better control of and alignment to corporate goals.

Programs are a mechanism used to achieve business or organizational goals and objectives.

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Program Management Success Factors

Organizational Maturity of:• Policies• Controls• Governance• Project

Management

Focus:• Benefits• Stakeholders• Governance• Lifecycle

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How Can PowerSteering Help?

Standardize:• Worktree• Work Objects• TagsMeasure:• Dashboards• ReportsControl:• Portfolios• Dashboards• Related Work• Interdependencies

between projects• Benefits from each

project

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Let’s See Program Management in PowerSteering

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Program Management Guide to Maturity

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Program Management Guide to Maturity

Where to Start?• Start simply• Are there projects that are

related to each other by benefit or goal?

• Look at groupings with basic information – questions will come

• Don’t try to design how you are managing Programs in PowerSteering at once

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Program Management Guide to Maturity

Where to Go?• Plan for Program

Management• Continue to Strengthen

Project Management Practices

• Teach/Learn Program Management Practices

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Q&A

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