In the arena of program management, principles serve as beacons of knowledge, proven practices, and accumulated wisdom. These principles act as foundational guidelines for strategy, decision-making, and problem-solving. They represent fundamental norms, truths, or values and cover a wide variety of disciplines. Program professionals and stakeholders have abundant opportunities to align with these principles and can influence their implementation and adherence throughout a program’s life cycle.
The program management principles are:
- Stakeholders: Engage stakeholders at a level commensurate with their impact on or contribution to the program’s success.
- Benefits Realization: Consistently focus on program outcomes aligned with organizational strategy.
- Synergy: Use a structured approach that blends portfolio, program, and project management practices to enable the program to accomplish more than its individual components could alone.
- Team of Teams: Integrate a team structure to create a network of relationships across components, enhancing adaptability and resilience.
- Change: Embrace change with an overall focus on program benefits realization.
- Leadership: Motivate and unite the program team to maintain the program’s delivery pace and realize expected benefits.
- Risk: Effectively manage program risks to ensure alignment with the organizational strategy.
- Governance: Establish and adopt a proportionate and appropriate governance framework to control the program as necessary.
Please note: Read The Standard for Program Management from the beginning to section 2.1 “Stakeholders” before starting to learn these principles.
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