The figure shows the growth in the number of publications whose title includes ‘project management’ (the blue line) and ‘program management’ or ‘programme mangement’ (the red line).
Source: Google Scholar
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Interesting trend! Just goes to show literature on programme management is not as advanced as that of project management.
Hmmm… this actually can be a good figure to use in the literature review for a thesis on project/programme management. 🙂
Great minds think alike -:)
Would you like to flesh out the idea a bit?
From my experience in researching programme risk management… the definition of what is a ‘programme’ is still unclear. The term is often interchangeably used as ‘project’, ‘multi-project’, as well as ‘portfolio’.
Perhaps a lot of articles in “project management” could actually be also classified as “programme management” articles.
Especially with the fact that programmes cannot be estranged from its project roots; research on programmes entail research on projects as well. 🙂
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Also… The graph would be a good image to use to prove the lack of programme management articles, thus giving a solid basis on why students’ thesis could contribute to the programme management field! (I could have used it in my thesis)