Gower Handbook of Programme Management

Geoff Reiss founded and is today Senior Architect at the Program Management Group plc. He was also co-author of Apple Project Manager, Pertmaster and Pertmaster Advance software systems, and founder and features editor of Project Management Today magazine. He is the Chairman of ProgM. Malcolm Anthony is an Independent Consultant (ProjectProject Ltd). Previously he was a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Services. John Chapman is Programme Director for Touchstone Ltd, and Treasurer of ProgM. He is author of the book ’Project and Programme Accounting’ published by Project Manager Today publications. Geof Leigh is Director of Goldart Ltd and has held project and programme management posts with a subsidiary of Sun Alliance, The Press Association and GE Capital Bank. Adrian Pyne is a senior consultant with wide industry experience including telecommunications, finance, e-commerce, aviation and government programmes. He is also the Secretary of ProgM. Paul Rayner is Managing Consultant within the Public Sector Division of LogicaCMG and is Vice-Chairman and Research & Development Secretary for ProgM. ProgM is the Programme Management Specific Interest Group for the Association for Project Management and the British Computer Society.

Contents: Part I: Introduction; The programme management process. Part II A Supporting Infrastructure: Programme organization and governance; Programme planning and control; Benefits management; Stakeholder management; Management of risks and issues; Programme assurance and quality; Configuration management; Internal communications; Programme accounting and financial control; Management of scope and change; The programme office; Programme knowledge management. Part III Programme Management Maturity: Measuring programme management maturity; The Programme Management Improvement model. Appendices: Glossary; Sources of additional information; Worked example of a programme definition document. Index.