Stanford Advanced Project Management (SAPM) defines a program-large or small, global or local-as a set of interdependent projects which must each be successfully completed to get the program work accomplished. In such an undertaking, it's all too easy for things to slip through the cracks. The course Program Management-Interfaces and Whitespaces addresses the three main challenges in successfully managing a program's inherent ambiguities.

Initiation: Starting a program can be a daunting task-like herding cats, as the saying goes. Program Management-Interfaces and Whitespaces offers specific insights for getting the program off the starting block and headed for the finish line. Critical aspects include output and outcome planning, stakeholder management, culture considerations, organizational change, and systems risk assessment.

Integration: By definition, programs are interconnected. The challenge is often how to design the interconnection. This course explains how to create meaningful and reliable agreements, interface definitions, and a program model.

Navigation: The program ship won't steer itself. Program Management - Interfaces and Whitespaces teaches how to deal with power and politics, generate accountability, and maintain critical communication for managing and leading the program to successful completion.

Program Management-Interfaces and Whitespaces is designed for professionals who manage multiple interdependent efforts and need insight based on the best research in the field, coupled with practical and useful means to address the inherent challenges they face.