Programme Management is closely related to Project Management, involving the successful co-ordination and integration of projects in order to deliver a strategic goal for an organisation.

Managing Successful Programmes, developed by the OGC, is a best practice guide to Programme Management outlining a set of Principles and Processes that should be adopted when managing a programme. 

The Principles in Managing Successful Programmes advise how to:
• Organise people to ensure responsibilities and lines of communication are clear;
• Plan the work in a way which achieves results;
• Ensure that the organisation does benefit from undertaking the programme;
• Ensure that all interested parties (the stakeholders) are involved;
• Resolve issues which arise;
• Identify and manage risks;
• Ensure quality;
• Keep up to date information which tracks the continually changing environment;
• Audit a programme to ensure standards are being followed. 

The Processes in Managing Successful Programmes describe how to:
• Identify the aim of the programme and envisaged benefits to the organisation;
• Define the programme, and specify how the organisation will be different afterwards;
• Establish the programme;
• Monitor and co-ordinate the projects within a programme to a successful conclusion;
• Manage the transition between the 'old' and 'new' ways of working, ensuring benefit;
• Close the programme and ensure the 'end goal' has been achieved.