Topics in Strategic Program Management builds upon the thinking in my earlier book, Strategic Program Management (published by CMAA; ISBN 978-0-9815612-1-9) while looking at some special applications of Strategic Program ManagementÕs basic principles and concepts.
It starts by looking at a growing set of the largest engineering and construction programs worldwide and tries to gleam some lessons from these new ÒgigaÓ projects. The term ÒgigaÓ itself is new and was selected to convey the ever increasing scale and complexity of challenges the largest of these programs faces rather than to convey any strict mathematical relationships.