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Vol. XII Issue X - October 2010
Project Management eJournal
BOOK REVIEW:
Book Title:Global Program Management
Authors: Paula Wagner, PMP, and Bruce T. Barkley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
List Price: US$ 59.99
Publication Date: December 2009
ISBN: 978-0071621830
Reviewer: John C. “Buck” Field
Review Date: August 2010
In this review, I kick the tires on this manual from personal perspectives with emphasis on business, science, Project Management Institute standards, and other opinions that have been of interest while reading Wagner & Barkley’s latest work.
On the cover of this hefty, 450-page tome, Global Project Management offers a “practical resource” with “proven strategies for directing the design, development, delivery, and monitoring of major, long-term business or agency programs”. Marketing for the book directs us in imperative form to “Discover how to:
- Review organizational and global settings for program management,
- Adhere to the new Project Management Institute Standard for Program Management,
- Develop strategies, programs, and candidate projects into a strategic portfolio,
- Align strategies and programs to ensure success, profitability, and program benefits
- Assess, monitor, and mitigate risk on a program scale
- Hone global program management leadership competencies
- Find and secure partners to provide program support
- Apply program management concepts to federal sector reforms.
Opening appropriately with an overview of program management and global programs this book, “Global Program Management” (hereafter: “GPM”) discusses the following topics in the main section of the book, and in the following order: Project Management Institute’s Program Management standard, portfolios, strategies, managers themselves, and new program development. This main section is followed by a risk management checklist, info on Microsoft apps, and “Global Project Management in a Program Management World” rounding out 3 appendices.
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About the Reviewer:
John C. ‘Buck’ Field, MBA, PMP, MCP, CPM
Living in Chilean Patagonia, Buck Field has been a member of the Project Management Institute since 2001, serving since 2002 as a contributing member and author for the PMBOK® Guide and the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. A business and government information systems consultant for more than 30 years, he is published in North and South America, Europe, Russia, and co-authored the first official Project Management Professional PMP® training program in China, created the California Department of Transportation’s project management glossary. Formerly a consulting information system project specialist, he currently is pursuing a PhD in administration of transformative science research and revolutionary technology development at the National Science Foundation. www.twitter.com/BurntSynapse
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