The differences
Program Management and Project Management are related but distinctly different disciplines.
Project Mgmt: The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
Typically technical in nature with a defined beginning and end.
Program Mgmt: Program Management is the management of a related series of projects [a program] executed over a broad period of time, and which are designed to accomplish broad goals, to which the individual projects contribute.
Typically business and technical in nature and my be a an ongoing effort
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Program Management (PMBOK): The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program?s strategic objectives and benfits.
Program Management Office (PMO): The centralized management of a particular program or programs such that corporate benefit is realized by the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques, and related high-level project management focus.
