Program Management Assignment

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Program Management Assignment
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Learning from Portfolio 1
1. Importance of program management
The portfolio 1 entry content is focused on a startup company VANT founded in the year
of 2005 in the high technology manufacturing industry which delivers various build in order
products to consumers. Due to enough of economic support the similar type of rest of the
companies are facing major application challenges but VANT is getting rapid strategic growth.
The organizational strategy designed for the company is appreciable as it works fairly in the
industry (Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). As per the consumers request the functions get
activated and the products are produced. The needs of communication between the departments
are less, due to the design approach. On the other hand the design complexity increases rapidly
with the product demands.
In order to reduce such complexities more interaction among the departments are
required. Multiple numbers of deliveries have been slipped and it is defined that for VANT these
particular issues will keep on growing. In order to reduce these identified issues it is mandatory
for the company to implement the most suitable management approaches because the aim of the
company is to incorporate proper change management approaches. With the changed
organizational structure it can facilitate proper communication and effective decision making
(Haas, 2016). This strategy will speed up the manufacturing approach.

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2. Recommendations
After analyzing the details of the application and facilities delivers by VANT it is
recommended that, program management is an appropriate approach that can resolve the issues
completely. Program management is referred to as one of the most crucial approaches which can
lead a company towards commercial and economic success. Program management is comprises
of multiple numbers of independent projects and all the projects are served by the company so
that it can reach the objectives of the company. In other words, for this company the term
program is a master project which is comprises of different subprojects. As per the standards of
program management it is defined that, many other factors are associated to program
management. It will help them company to define the interfaces with an aligned schedules. Not
only this but also, the identified risks can all managed accurately for the coordinated resources
and a joint change control.
Though, there is no such difference between the application and function of program
management and project management. The misunderstandings regarding discriminations
between two disciplines can be reinforced with the program management approach. Apart from
this it helps to achieve the business objectives accurately. Moreover, it can be said that program
management can create a successful kink between the business strategies with products
manufacturing and development. On the other hand, the program management is referred to as a
fundamental flaw in the business thinking process.
Program management has a strategic nature whereas; the nature of project management is
tactical. With the successful coordination between many projects all at a time can lead to
successful program management. The program management is cross functional in nature.
Therefore, in order to combat the identified functional and operational issues of VANT the

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concept of program management can be implemented as its nature is applicable due to its
technical and business nature. From the business point of view it seems to be feasible as it
ensures that, all the common business processes can be used individually for all the projects. A
broader range of project management, business and leadership is needed for managing the issues
of VANT.
3. Approach to the problem
Project management deals management of only one project at a tome whereas; the
program management is focused on management of several projects at a time. The objectives of
the company are to successfully manufacture and deliver products to consumers and getting
competitive advantages from competitive market (Harrison & Lock, 2017). In order to deliver
single element for a complete project program management approach is appreciable. All
involved elements to the projects and programs are to be identified an analyzed by the assigned
project manager of the company. With the help of program management, a well coordination and
synchronization can be processed and executed at the program levels.
In order to process any project for VENT phase gate lifecycle model is required to be
implemented by the project managers. At the same time managing all projects successfully is a
complex responsibility for the project manager and project team members (Kerzner & Kerzner,
2017). A successful program management approach is comprises of business objectives and
program management, program work breakdown structure (WBS), program planning and
program success criteria. These are the different levels of program management hierarchy.
Multiple numbers of interdependent programs can be successfully implemented through
the program management approach. It enables the operational and functional executive of the

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company to achieve the intended business objectives of the company. Project complexities will
be minimized if the project manager successfully achieves the intended project objectives within
estimated project timeframe. In order to successfully achieve additional market share, quality as
well as consumer support project focused activities are required to be implemented. All defined
activities are required to be successfully performed by the project manager and the project team
members (Mir & Pinnington, 2014). According to the program planning individual dates the
plans are to be synchronized.
Learning from Portfolio 2
From the program perspectives description of the advantages and disadvantages of TSU
approach
TSU is a 21person unit that is established for the development of the proprietary software
management tool for another company named as OzChinz. The TSU is headquartered in Perth
and on the other hand the OzChinz is headquartered in Sydney. The TSU is assigned for the
development of software tool for the purpose of testing different microprocessors.TSU company
used to tae huge time for the identification of the resources and gathering resources from those
locations (Pilepic, Simunic & Car, 2015). Traditionally it used to take around 6 months for
gathering data. Not only this but also they used to collect even in the project ongoing phase
which was also quite time taken. In order to satisfy every those person who are involved to the
projects, they had seen that list of features are increasing rapidly and fulfillment of all those
features are quite difficult.
For avoiding the cost overrunning ad time over allocation issues they had to drop some of
the features intentionally. The managers and team mates collectively took the responsibility of

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analyzing all these difficult situations. Regarding time management and project scope the
company is facing challenges accordingly (Gosling et al., 2015). The negative consequences and
other project issues should be minimized by the project managers. From the organizational
structure analysis it is defined that, the business mode of TSU is changed and converted to a
rapid release model. With the help of “release model”, the quality of newly developed products
will be improved. The advantage and disadvantages of the approaches offered by TSU are
elaborated in the below section:
The rapid release approach developed by TSU supports frequent as well as smaller
projects. In addition to this, each of the smaller projects is concentrated to implementation of
smaller numbers of projects only. At the project initiation phase during development, in
particular the project scope should be released based on the program life cycle. Each of the
associate project scope holds around 2 or 3 different level of project characteristics.
The program life cycle approach took place at the project discovery phase this is one of
the major advantages for this approach (Shi et al., 2015). Before final launch all requested
program features expected to be corporate must be approved by the project managers. The
assumed program which is going to be developed by the project manager of TSU is named as
program X. Handling a large project like X is seems to be very difficult which is a disadvantage
from the program management perspectives. As soon as the large project X is divided into small
parts such as XA the management approach become easier to manage. The project stars with the
programming part and it is mandatory for the project manager to accomplish their job roles all
successfully.