The Essentials of Managing Programmes

The Essentials of Managing Programmes is an indispensable, applied guide to success in realising the benefits associated with delivering business strategy and change.

John Bartlett opens with the purpose and application of programme management in the context of the business or organization. He explains how to organise for programmes, including the roles of the key players involved; how to design and establish a programme office. Three chapters cover the core elements of risk, benefits and governance.

To help you think strategically, the author builds on soft systems thinking (Peter Checkland 1981) to visualise and communicate the dynamic nature of change and encourage employee involvement.

Pick up and use this concise, intensely practical guide to develop a shared understanding, shared language and shared purpose in all your programmes; across project managers, sponsors, programme board members and all those involved in or affected by organizational transformation.

John Bartlett has enjoyed a long career in project and programme management, commencing with IBM UK Ltd. He later held the post of Head of Project Management for the UK at DMR Consulting Group, where he was responsbile for developing a project management capability and assisting clients with the specification and management of business and IT change. He latterley held the posts of Director of Technology Services and Director in the European Programme Office at NCR Ltd. More recently, he has been an independent consultant on business change.

John is a Fellow of the Association of Project Management and has written widely on projects and programmes including five?previous editions of this book (previously Managing Programmes of Business Change).