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Program Management
September 12 - 13, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
More and more organizations are using program management approach to introduce business changes for alignment with the strategic direction thereby having better chance of realization of strategic goals. The standard for Program Management defines the program management as the centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program’s specific objectives and benefits. Program Management operates at a higher organization level, with a broader scope and involves the coordinating of multiple projects to achieve certain beneficial outcomes.
Although program management and project management appear similar, there are a few differences between the two. Program manager requires a refined set of business and leadership skills that are vastly different from that of a project manager. An effective program manager generally requires a good grounding in project management. To many project managers, program management is the next logical step in the career progression.
Program management processes are independent of application area or industry focus.
Efficient program management requires the implementation of specific processes and components. The course will:
- Provide an overview of program life cycle, themes and process groups.
- Cover the common inputs and outputs and will clarify some of the differences between program and project management.
- Enable participants to initiate and organize a large-scale program to implement business strategy.
The training should assist participants in the preparation of PMI's PgMP® certification examination
The course will cover tools and techniques for program governance, effectively managing stakeholders and benefit management. Coverage will include the following topics:
- Introduction to Program Management
- Project Management vs. program management
- Program Management life cycle
Stages
- Pre-program set-up
- Program set-up
- Establishing program management and technical infrastructure
- Deliver the benefits
- Close the program
- Three themes of Program Management
- Benefit management
- Program governance
- Stakeholder management
- Program Management Office
- Program Risk Identification, Analysis and Response Strategy
The course delivery will be discussion based primarily using case examples and scenarios that typically encounters in real life.
Program processes are independent of application area or industry focus. As such all those with good knowledge and experience of project management and the associated methodologies will benefit from this training. Professionals with experience in leading a mid to large projects / programs of atleast 15 resources.
Dr N K Mehta has worked in senior management positions in well known IT services companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) the largest and the best known company from India. He was one of the few Indians to have been selected for the role of International Delivery Unit Director in Xansa – a British company where he was also later chosen for the role of Global CIO.
Recognised by his colleagues for bringing about positive changes in his environment, Dr. Mehta has led many initiatives – technical, techno-commercial and service innovations all through his career, many of these were among first time in the organisations he worked. He modified SSAD approach to incorporate prototyping phase in a large scale organisation wide consultancy assignment. This real-life experience was selected for Kewal Dubey award by the Computer Society of India.
He was very closely involved in end to end design and implementation of a distributed application on Oil Trading for the largest Soya Processor in India. This saw introduction of VSAT for data communication in the company (1996-7).
He introduced innovations in the form of shared service centre for servicing multiple customers and virtual teams across geographies for servicing internal customers on IT infrastructure. He defined a new career family for business systems professionals at Xansa.
He has led software (export) delivery centres through various process maturity phases that led to certifications of highest levels in software engineering, workforce practices and information security (i.e. CMM, P-CMM, BS7799). He guided modification of work force practices for professional services and ODCs (offshore development centres) for Level 5 capability demonstration at NTL. He was instrumental in setting up new office premises – state of art development centres for reliable offshore IT services.
He was associated with the training in PC concepts of first few batches of senior bureaucrats of Indian Government (1986-7). This was recognised with the Excellence Award of TCS. His short stint in academics (at NITIE) saw reorientation of a course on Design of Information Systems. The experience was shared in a publication of CSI. He has promoted Industry and Academics participation. Today, he has taken initiative to set up a Centre of Excellence in Open Software for increasing affordability of IT solutions among academic institutions and SMEs.
Dr. Mehta has substantial experience in all facets of Information Technology business with international and domestic stint. His wide experience spans private and public sectors, in various roles, covering management, consultancy, research and education & training.