Forecasting Programs - book

For Table of Contents, click here.  This book has 375 pages. NOTE the eBook version is available on Amazon.com here in the Kindle format that can be read on any device with the Kindle Reader software.  Summary The meteorite shower on the front cover is our artistic metaphor for programs: Long-range impacts, highly visible, many moving parts, overwhelming in nature and sometimes highly destructive (for reputations). That's what programs are. Regardless of the challenges in managing programs, the author, Eric Uyttewaal, thinks that programs inherently are not more complex than projects: The deliverables in a project are like projects in a program. Dependencies between activities within a project are now dependencies between projects in a program. Project objectives are called strategic benefits in programs. Programs are on a higher level of abstraction than projects, have many more tasks and have higher stakes. Program stakeholders are richer, smarter and typically more assertive. Pr