# Program management Program management is the coordinated management of a group of related projects, called a program, to obtain benefits that managing each project separately wouldn't deliver. That's the core of the [[Project Management Institute (PMI)]] definition of a program: related projects, subprograms and program activities, managed in a coordinated way. A project delivers an output and ends. A program groups the projects that serve one larger outcome, usually a strategic objective or an organizational change, and manages what falls between them: dependencies, sequencing, shared resources, risks across projects, and whether the expected benefits actually show up. The program manager doesn't run each project; they make the decisions that a single project manager can't make from inside one project. The same idea applies at a personal scale. A product launch can involve separate projects for the product, the sales page and the email campaign; someone still has to own the order they happen in and the time they share. In the [[Obsidian Starter Kit]] action system, the closest equivalent is a goal or a plan linked to several projects (see [[Obsidian Starter Kit - Theory - The action system]]). ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_management - https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/new-pmi-program-project-management-standard-7441 ## Related - [[Project Management Institute (PMI)]] - [[Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)]] - [[Portfolio thinking]] - [[Critical Path Method (CPM)]] - [[RACI Matrix]] - [[Obsidian Starter Kit - Theory - The action system]] - [[Project Management (MoC)]]