Books from the Project Management Institute (PMI) provide standards for the entire industry of project management and program management. ANSI, an American body supervising industry-wide standards, has approved this text as true wherever program management is practiced. Therefore, studying this book can provide a lot of value for your current position as well as any jobs you might attain throughout your career.
This book’s tone is not incredibly engaging like a popular book’s tone is. It reads like what it purports to be: A book of standards. Nonetheless, it provides a lot to meditate upon. Reading other literature about program management is important, but reading this book can make sure you haven’t missed any holes.
In particular, it doesn’t focus on one topic but instead on the entire life-cycle of a program. A program contains a series of projects and even other programs that synergize each other to attain a larger organizational goal. Identifying and building those synergies are central job requirements of a program manager. Seeing the big picture, such as this book conveys, will allow a program manager to successfully do the little things of their job well.
Again, don’t expect to be entertained by this book, but do expect to identify a few smaller items that you need to work on, whether it be closing out a program or dealing with governance. Reading standards like these can bring one’s work from the merely good level to the excellent level. This book doesn’t shortcut around the need for other personal study about program management, but its rigor does provide necessary polish for details that popular books might miss.
The Standard for Program Management
By the Project Management Institute
Fifth Edition
Copyright (c) 2024
Project Management Institute
ISBN13 9781628258141
Page Count: 247
Genre: Management, Program Management
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