While setting up a program’s infrastructure and plan, a program management team develops documents and...

Breakdowns such as the program work breakdown structure (PWBS), component project milestones, and budgets that transform top-level planning into fragments relevant to the components

Industry standards that provide guidance to the component project managers on how to adapt their detailed planning to the program’s master plan

Documents that enable level-adequate aggregation and consolidation of component/program information and forecasting

Files, filing structures, and templates for knowledge repositories that contain centrally stored and commonly maintained program data