Thinking and Acting as a Great Programme Manager

Thinking and Acting as a Great Programme Manager is intended to help experienced project and programme practitioners perform their work better. The focus is not on methodologies, tools or techniques, but on the conceptions that underpin and guide action. By elaborating and exploring these conceptions or mindsets the aim is to stimulate thought, prompt reflection, deepen appreciation and change practice.

The book touches on the nature of programmes management, its principal themes and methods and its relationship to project management. The book incorporates experiences, ideas and insights from practice across diverse industries. But its primary purpose is not to tell you about project and programme management in an abstract sense, nor instruct you on how you should manage a project or programme. Its primary purpose is to engage you in thinking about how you might interpret and address different aspects of and challenges common in project and programme management work. Competence is about being good at doing something, not only knowing something. As such its value lies in helping you to think deeply about what you do, and what you could do differently. The book is intended to facilitate personal and professional development.

More information on the book is available at: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279569

Additional Scenarios

The intention is to post additional scenarios on the website on a regular basis, followed by a debrief a month or so later. The hope is that these scenarios and debriefs will help to develop and consolidate your professional development.