Today’s organisations are subject to continual change.

There are often many, dynamic and contradictory drivers for change, including innovations in technology, working practices (for example hybrid working, outsourcing and partnerships), mergers and acquisitions, the need for operational and cost efficiencies and increased demands from regulation.

Whatever the organisation, wherever it is located and however it is structured, the rate of change is increasing.

For organisations to survive and prosper in this environment of continual change, they must learn how to transform themselves through effective leadership and strategic control.

Programme and Project Management is a key tool for enabling organisations to deliver their strategy and manage that transformation.

Programme management is at the heart of any successful programme. It supports the programme organisation with delivery through many activities including developing and managing processes, tools and templates, setting up the programme governance and focusing on robust risk management. It can be the difference between project success and project failure.

Programme management aligns three critical organisational elements:

• Corporate strategy
• Delivery mechanism for change
• Business-as usual environment.

It manages that natural tension that exists between these elements to deliver transformational change that meets the needs of the organisation and its stakeholders. It also manages the transition of the solutions developed and delivered by the projects into the organisation’s operations, whilst maintaining performance and effectiveness.

Programme management provides a framework that integrates and reconciles competing demands for resources, providing a context and control framework for the constituent projects of the programme.

Importantly, it oftens involves changes to culture, style and character of organisations.

The people aspects of change must be recognised and accommodated if the programme is to succeed, and to the extent that this change management is seen as a separate and complementary discipline.

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