Imagine projects that deliver strategy efficiently and expertly. It’s possible when program management is the link that connects strategy to projects.

Effective program management serves as the implementer of an organization’s strategy. It is the infrastructure that collects and analyzes project information across an enterprise. And in turn, program management uses that information to manage cross-project dependencies and optimize resources in a way not possible at the individual project level.

Program management is also the best manager of enterprisewide processes, such as a company’s programs for quality, supply chain management, health and safety, estimating, training, scheduling, risk management and procurement.

Program management requires a competency beyond traditional project management. It is often the next level of career advancement for a senior project manager.

Program Navigators measures your current program management capabilities against your program needs. We then help you design, develop and implement program management infrastructure. We also help you develop and implement the methodologies and processes required to manage a program, including installing a program office.

We work with you to assess your staff’s capabilities and identify the competencies needing development. We can even manage your program during the transition. As with all of our services, we help you develop and deliver the implementation plan, organizational change management plan and communication plan that guide your transition to sound program management.

Program management is hard work. It takes commitment. We roll up our sleeves and work beside you to achieve success.

Program management provides a broad view of your company’s project efforts and crystallizes your organization’s processes. Program management:

• Implements strategy by linking strategy to projects.
• Provides governance over a collection of similar projects.
• Provides infrastructure to collect and analyze program and project information enabling better, more timely decisions.
• Provides ongoing delivery of services to customers from project to project.
• Manages multiple projects in a coordinated and synergistic way that cannot be achieved by managing projects individually.
• Leverages resources and reduces time to market while driving down cost.
• Optimizes resources across the organization.
• Identifies and integrates inter-project dependencies for scheduling and resource optimization.
• Provides efficiencies by owning, managing and improving enterprisewide systems, such as those for quality, safety and procurement.
• Provides a new, important career path for many middle managers.