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"Prologue Organizations form programs to achieve strategic objectives that help them grow and perform more effectively and efficiently. The importance of these initiatives is such that an oversight function is required from executive management, whose role is to monitor the program ensuring that all parts are on track, support the program when required, and control different aspects of the program if things seem to go in the wrong direction. These dimensions of unification form the core of program governance. The need for program governance comes from the fact that there are certain aspects of the program that are not under the direct control of the program manager, and he or she requires support from the program governors to ascertain successful delivery of the program objectives. In addition, the program governors have to ensure that the program activities are being carried out as planned, and that any major deviations are accounted for and approved. In the following chapters, for the sake of clarity, all governance entities or roles (such as steering committees, program boards, program sponsors, etc.,) will be grouped together and referred to as program governors. A few years ago, I was working with a team of software professionals to develop the first trading platform in the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) region. The team, I still remember, could be called a star team. We were a start-up; we needed a team like that one. It was similar to a "band of brothers" working together to build their dream rather than a pool of professionals working toward an objective. We succeeded! We created our dream"--
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Introduction. Underlying Theories. Governance at All Levels. Program and Program Management. Governance Institutions and Roles. Program Governance Functions. Program Governance Mechanisms. Assets to Govern. Factors Affecting Program Governanace.
Contigent Governance Framework for Programs (CGFPg(TM)). Applying CGFPg(TM).
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Dr. Muhammad Ehsan Khan is an entrepreneur and an internationally acknowledged professional on the subject of Governance and Management of Strategic Initiatives. An award-winning strategist with over a decade of leadership success, and a career that has driven multi-million dollar projects for various clients in Middle East and Pakistan, He is a founding member, and presently serves as a Partner/VP Operations and Service delivery, in a UAE based firm Inseyab Consulting & Information Solutions LLC.
He holds a doctoral degree in Strategic, Programme and Project Management (Major de Promotion/Valedictorian) from SKEMA Business School, France and a certified Program (PgMP®)
) and Project Management Professional (PMP®). Ehsan is a recipient of PMI James R. Snyder Award for the year 2012 and was awarded the Young Researcher of the year award by IPMA in 2013. He is the author of first every book on the subject of program governance.
Dr. Khan has provided management, consulting and mentoring services in the Middle East Region. He has been involved in establishment of PMO, implementation of management and governance frameworks and related practices and tools, in order to create an environment of project management excellence. He has also been managing medium-large scale ICT programs and projects for various customers, especially for ones in the governmental sector.
