Multicultural Program Management: How the Public and Private Sectors Can Learn from One Another

Although the drivers and performance metrics for program management (PM) in the government and private industry are different, the desired results are the same. Program managers (PMs) want their projects to be successful, whatever their definitions of success may be. As such, government and private industry program managers can gain insight and potentially new ways of doing things by learning about each other’s PM approaches.

In spite of their different paths, public and private sector PM has one overarching commonality: the need to do more with less. Because of today’s economic landscape—and it doesn’t look like it will return to former levels anytime soon—fewer people are employed to do the work that needs to be done. Tight resources typically mean tighter deadlines, making the visibility and proactivity that PM engenders economically imperative. And it should be noted that at least on the surface, the “language” of PM, as far as its terms and definitions, is universal across government and industry.

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