ABSTRACT
Our days are so crowded and our hours are so few. And there’s so little time and so much to do.
—Helen Steiner Rice
A program management life cycle can help program professionals in their quest to minimize their busy world, and it is during this life cycle in which the program’s benefits are realized and sustained. However, the Standard for Program Management-Third Edition (2013) explains the program life cycle is not sequential as program components start and end at different times, and during the life cycle, the program produces ‘a stream of deliverables’ (p. 11). The life cycle spans the program’s duration.
