Program Management: Collaborating across the Organization

To be most effective when managing a large program, the component projects should limit their batch size, create networks of people, and report status in a way that works for the entire program. For those of you who are not quite ready for agile, Johanna Rothman explains how to use staged delivery, release trains, or RUP as lean(er) alternatives to waterfall and agile. Johanna explains how to encourage project teams to create communities of practice using their social networks—start with the existing rumor mill and build on it more formally. If you have managed programs in the past, you know you can never believe the Gantt chart, but we persist in using them. Instead, consider a product backlog burnup chart or a cumulative flow diagram. Join Johanna to discover how to use alternative measures of the program status including storyboards and alternative metrics to monitor your program's state.