Program Management
Program management provides the critical skills to effectively align the organizational and project interests. In today's competitive world when organizations need to make the most out of all of their resources to introduce new products to market ahead of the competition or to complete capital projects on budget and on time. Organizations need a system that helps to manage the complexity of large projects—a program management system that automates a project's people, process, and content across the entire enterprise. Program Management focuses on coordinating and prioritizing resources across various projects, departments, and entities to insure that resource contention is managed from a global focus. It provides a layer above project management focusing on selecting the best group of program, defining them in terms of their constituent projects and providing an infrastructure where projects can be run successfully but leaving project management to the project management community.
Program management course emphasizes that a candidate learns about unique skills and experiences in one or more of the following areas: Grants Policy and Strategy, System Implementation, Communications, and Outreach or Program Operations.
Career Options:-
After completing program management, you can join as program manager, program coordinator, consultant, coordinator or a trainee in technical, corporate, private or banking sector.
The Project Manager must possess a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve interpersonal conflicts as well as more systematic management skills. Key amongst his/her duties is the recognition that risk directly impacts the likelihood of success and that this risk must be both formally and informally measured throughout the lifetime of the project.
The program manager bears the entire responsibility for the completion of the project and is accountable to upper management, share holders and business partners. Frequently, monetary incentives are rewarded if the program is completed on time.
Required Personality Traits:-
- Excellent Organization skills
- Multi tasking
- Leadership skills
- Team Spirit
- Diplomatic
- Should be able to work under pressure
Institutes offering courses in Program Management:-
- International Institute of Project Management, Chennai
Course Offered: Program Management Professional- New credential for Program Managers