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Mandeep Kaur, Lovely Professional University Unit 4: Programme Management & Project Evaluation

Unit 4: Programme Management & Project Evaluation Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

4.1 Meaning
4.1.1 Programme Management
4.1.2 Project Evaluation

4.2 Managing Allocation of Resources
4.3 Creating Programme
4.3.1 The Golden Thread
4.4 Individual Projects
4.5 Technical Assessment

4.6 Cost Benefit Analysis
4.6.1 Mistakes and Problems with Cost-benefit Analysis
4.6.2 History of Cost Benefit Analysis

4.7 Risk Evaluation
4.8 Summary
4.9 Keywords
4.10 Review Questions
4.11 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Recognize allocation of resources

 Describe creating programs
 Explain the individual projects
 Discuss technical assessment
 Describe cost benefit analysis and risk evaluation

Introduction

Program management or programme management is the procedure of organizing numerous
related projects, often with the meaning of improving an organization’s performance. In practice
and in its aims it is often intimately related to systems engineering.

Project evaluation is an organized and objective measurement of an ongoing or completed project.
The aim is to conclude the relevance and level of achievement of project objectives, development

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