Assignment Task:
On your program, you are continually spending the majority of your time communicating with stakeholders at all levels and in varying locations and coordinating activities. You also are preparing a number of status reports for different stakeholder groups and also for your Governance Board with its numerous program reviews and more rigorous stage gate reviews. Working as a program manager, you recognize the key distinctions between a project life cycle and a program life cycle. One of these distinctions is
a. Some projects may need to be integrated with others to provide program benefits
b. The life cycle assists in the control and management of the project deliverables
c. Programs have a distinct life cycle that is not extended
d. The way the life cycle is set up means that project benefits cannot be realized immediately