Anonymous
Generally, the program life cycle is Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, Closure. So, you start with the initiation phase where you discuss program goals and their alignment with company mission and vision with the program sponsors. Next, I would identify the stakeholders and discuss the goals and alignment with them. Next, step is to work with stakeholders to come up with prioritized list of requirements based on reach, impact, confidence and effort and alignment with company mission as part of program planning. I would also document all the risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies and develop mitigation plan. Make sure mitigation plans and dependencies have owners and due dates assigned, I would create communication plan that defines the format of the status report, distribution list and cadence of reports. Setup communication channels like Slack groups. Setup a series of meetings for the stakeholders to sync regularly. This is how I would start a program. The next would be execution, controlling and monitoring and closure. Would you like me talk about those?