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Article Program Management, Quality Management, Risk Management, Scheduling 1 April 2014

PM Network

Water works

By Howlett, Sarah Protzman For centuries, the Netherlands built walls to keep the water out. With the 2.3 billion Room for the River program, this European country--where 26 percent of the land sits below sea level--is now…

Article Portfolio Management, Program Management, Risk Management, Talent Management, Career Development, Quality Management, Resource Management 1 April 2013

PM Network

Finding the competitive edge

By Fister Gale, Sarah No matter their sector or location, organizations face a highly complex business environment that demands innovation and the agility to respond to shifting global priorities. As a result, in today's…

Article Program Management, Quality Management 1 February 2013

PM Network

The cost of quality

A quality-driven program is essential to good project management. This article features the chairman of Tata Quality Management Services (Mumbai, India) discussing how his organization meets global…

Article Program Management, Scheduling, Quality Management August 2012

PM Network

The best of both worlds

By Jackson, Michelle Bowles Role stereotypes hold that systems engineers are the technical experts and program managers are the seasoned businesspeople. But can these two worlds connect their work to create positive business…

Conference Paper Portfolio Management, Program Management, PMO, Quality Management 9 May 2012

How to measure real project success

By Thiry, Michel In the last two decades, project management has been applied to the delivery of more and more complex "solutions." How is this affecting the way we measure project success? Are the traditional…

Article Portfolio Management, Program Management, Quality Management May 2012

PM Network

Measuring maturity

By Swanson, Sandra An organization's project management maturity is a key success indicator, but only if companies know how to gauge it. This article explores how organizations can take several steps to effectively…

Article Program Management, Quality Management February 2012

Project Management Journal

Measuring program success

By Shao, Jingting | Müller, Ralf | Turner, J. Rodney Growth in the use of programs has led to a requirement of understanding what constitutes program success. A measurement construct for program success, which comprises four dimensions--delivery…

Conference Paper Program Management, Quality Management, Complexity 14 July 2010

I can't get no--satisfaction

By Maylor, Harvey | Geraldi, Joana G. | Johnson, Mark Achieving customer satisfaction through the active management of quality is a perennial challenge for program and project managers in many contexts. Indeed, we begin with a practitioner problem…

Conference Paper Program Management, Quality Management 13 October 2009

Programs are not projects

By Ward, J. LeRoy. Managing programs is much different than managing projects. Yet many organizations continually use project management processes to implement programs--all too often because they do not understand…

Conference Paper Program Management, PMO, Quality Management, Organizational Project Management 20 May 2009

Improving organizational project management maturity: a Siemens case study

By Sopko, Joseph A. | Husemeier, Siegfried The most effective means of improving an organization's capability in practicing project management is to apply methods and models that mature its efforts. This paper examines how Siemens…