Chapter 4
Focusing on the Principles of Programme Management
In This Chapter
Defining programme principles
Encouraging the necessary principles
Making sure that your programme improves
This chapter covers the principles of programme management – those universal, proved-through-experience, empowering concepts that underpin the whole of programme management. I describe what you can do to ensure that the crucial programme principles exist: aligning with corporate strategy, leading effectively, seeing and conveying a better future, achieving – and protecting – benefits, creating value and delivering a coherent capability. In addition, I point out that the programme needs to develop, adjust and improve throughout its life.
I cover powerful ideas in this chapter, some of which may seem a little daunting to achieve. But I hope that the discussions and examples in this chapter help you to see that living by these programme principles is entirely practical, thus encouraging you to apply the principles of programme management to your own programme.
No hard and fast rules apply to the principles. ...
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