[fab] I have a few questions for the board.

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:01 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:

> Thus far, I've tried to use simple classification to separate efforts that are 
> organized and worthy of things like meetings and efforts that are young or 
> too small or simple to warrant meetings and committees.  Although I haven't 
> stuck to it 100%, and can't provide specific guidelines, I've tried to 
> classify the former as "projects" and the latter as "programs".  I've had to 
> do this in order to maintain related wiki pages and to establish the 
> relationships between many of the smaller efforts.

The problem with this usage is that it is the exact opposite of the
usage of the two terms in project management.[1]

A program is a large, overarching project that consists of multiple
projects.  A program manager is a PM over many projects that have their
own PMs, etc.

If we use this language backwards from the way the rest of IT uses it,
we're more likely to foment confusion.

[1] I just made Jeremy's blood pressure go up a few ticks, but recall
that there are always useful things to learn from a discipline even if
you don't adhere to it.

- Karsten
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