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About Programs

To access programs, select Programs from the Portfolio Management menu. The programs list page appears, displaying all the programs you created and have access to.

You can do the following from the programs page:

• Create new programs
• Define program properties such as schedules and budgets and adding projects to the program
• View the combined actuals and effort for all of the projects in a program
• Edit existing programs
• Delete programs

After creating a program and defining its properties, you can use the other program menus to do the following:

• Team. Use the pages on this menu to add participants and participant groups to the program. If the program subprojects contain staff, the team staff page of programs displays a list of the roles of all of the resources assigned as staff to the subprojects. For the staff assigned to the subprojects but without a project role, the page displays the name of the staff member.
• Tasks. Use the pages on this menu to create milestone tasks and open the tasks in a separate Gantt view window. The Work Breakdown Structure menu does not display.
• Action Items, Document Manager, Discussions, and Processes. Program participants can use all the collaboration tools of the program.
• Risks/Issues/Changes. Use this menu to rate risks and create risks, issues, and change requests as you do for a project.

More information:

The Differences Between Projects and Programs

Project Access Rights

Risks, Issues, Change Requests, and Action Items