Program Management
Program Management
The Program Management capability supports the management of program roadmap realization. Each capability within the Planview Capability Framework has a distinct set of features and functionality, business processes, best practices, and analytics and reports that deliver value to customers in the form of specific business outcomes.
Definition and Business Outcomes
Definition
Monitors program roadmap realization, tracking the status and health of a given program executed through associated projects.
Business Outcome
We can create and associate the projects that will be executed to deliver the program.
Business Outcome
We can manage the program’s delivery, updating the roadmap based on the collection of key dependent projects.
Business Outcome
We can update stakeholders on our program roadmap’s health, rolling up relevant execution data from the underlying projects.
Best Practices
Align programs to strategy
Effective program planning supports the creation, business case development, and approval of programs that deliver the organizational strategic initiatives and business outcomes. Program managers need to select, prioritize, and rank projects for the program portfolio that deliver the initiatives, financials, and outcomes defined in the strategic plan.
Engage with stakeholders
Connect with your program stakeholders to gain insight into business objectives and to understand their views, priorities, and concerns. This includes connecting with project teams to ensure project managers are supported and unblocked, and identify any risk mitigation or improvement opportunities.
Monitor and manage program financials
To develop the business case for the program, estimate the costs, benefits, and revenue associated with program initiatives, and ensure they are aligned to your organizational financial data model. Submit programs for approval and funding from the strategic plan and initiatives. When programs move into execution, baseline them for performance monitoring.
Roll up data into dashboards
Provide regular status updates on program health to program stakeholders using dashboards. Configure dashboards that summarize key program information and roll-up execution data from underlying projects. Dashboards can be easily shared to teams, management, stakeholders, and executives.
Review your roadmap regularly
Review your roadmap on an ongoing basis, such as quarterly, and maintain an adaptive and responsive mindset as you learn new information about the product/market or receive customer feedback. Reassess, adapt, and communicate changes to stakeholders as your roadmap evolves—but to maintain stakeholder confidence in your strategic decision-making process, avoid continuously updating or never updating your roadmap.
Associate all work with the program
To maintain your program roadmap and schedule and ensure you have the resources needed, make sure all related work is associated to the program. Each time work is created as part of the program it should be associated to the program so that the project schedule, financials, and resources all roll up to the program for full visibility in the work going on.
Processes and Reports
This capability supports the creation, planning, business case development, and approval of programs that will deliver the organizational strategic initiatives and business outcomes.
Related Capabilities
Roadmapping
This capability supports the translation of strategic ideas into an interactive timeline of business outcomes and deliverables. Roadmaps are used to set direction and communicate with stakeholders throughout delivery.
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Supported Solutions
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