Project, Program or Biggs Matter

The enterprise's three principal units of attention.

How the practice works

A project covers work up to ten million dollars; a program covers the next range through five hundred million. Above that sits a Mr Biggs Matter. Classification determines oversight and sponsorship, but does not determine how many slides are required to explain the first useful decision.

The working record
  1. 01Scope
  2. 02Dependencies
  3. 03Exposure
  4. 04Forum

A working example

The EPMO checks scope, dependencies and financial exposure before assigning the category. Related work is considered together so that splitting a program into convenient project-sized pieces does not make the dependencies disappear.

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