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7-8 STATE OF THE ART OF GLOBAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Role: Program owner team
Objectives
• Coordinate program and company interests
• Assign a program manager to perform the program
• Perform strategic program controlling
• Lead the program manager
Position in the organization
• Part of the program organization
• Program manager reports to the program owner team
Tasks
Tasks in the program start
• Assign the program
• Provide support in the selection of the program team members
• Establish the program context
• Ensure the availability of program resources
• Contribute to the initial program marketing
• Participate in the initial program team meeting
• Hold program owner team meeting
Tasks in program controlling
• Hold program owner team meetings
• Coordinate the program with other programs, projects and company objectives
• Analyze the program progress report
• Select the project owner team and project managers
• Ensure the availability of program resources
• Continually contribute to program marketing
Tasks in resolving a program discontinuity
• Define a program discontinuity
• Collaborate in the development of and decisions about immediate measures
• Collaborate in the cause analysis of the program crisis
• Decide about alternative strategies
• Collaborate on the performance of corrective measures and checks on their success
• End a program discontinuity
Tasks in program close-down
• Hold program owner team meeting

• Participate in the closing program team meeting
• Formal program approval
Formal authority
• Selecting the program manager
• Providing the program budget
• Changing the program objectives
• Definition of a program discontinuity
• Program stopping
• Program close-down
FIGURE 7.7 Role description: Program owner team.

professional fulfillment of the program management processes. The role of the program
manager is described in Fig. 7.8.
Because of the extensive management and marketing effort in programs, it is recom-
mended that a program office be established for operational support of the program
manager. This is a major contribution to securing success in the program. The integra-
tive program management tasks are institutionalized in the program office. It establishes