Programme Management for NPfIT (continued)

Ensuring that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts (continued)

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Programme management is not just a single discipline. It addresses the complexities of inter-project dependencies (both for completion and realization of benefits), cross-party facilitation, identifying economies of scale, sharing lessons and experience, managing inter-project and pan-project risks and issues, defining and enforcing quality, process and technical standards; and – vitally – maintaining a view of the ‘big picture’. Implemented properly, Programme Management ensures that individual projects deliver the overall vision: something greater than the sum of
the parts.