What is Agile Programme Management (AgilePgM)

A programme is a temporary structure designed to lead multiple interrelated projects and other work in order to progressively achieve outcomes of benefit for one or more organizations.

Programme Management is defined as the management of this temporary structure designed to lead multiple interrelated projects and other work in order to progressively achieve outcomes of benefit for one or more organizations.

Agile can be defined as generic description of a style of working, with emphasis on: 

• Flexibility
• Working closely with customer throughout
• Ensuring final solution actually meets business need
• Deferring decisions about detail until last responsible moment

Question is “why do we need Agile Programme Management?”

The answer is simple, Agile Programme Management (AgilePgM) embraces iterative approach, resulting in best business solution emerging iteratively and incrementally. This ensure that programme addresses the changing needs and circumstances so that “business needs” are defined, prioritised and delivered accordingly. This may also result in early termination of the programme, saving valuable time, effort and costs for business. 

Corporate world (and culture within) has come a long way from micromanagement to trust and empowerment. Agile Programme Management uses all the agile tools and techniques from deep within the projects (delivery teams) to the top most level of the programme resulting in an governance which ensures that programmes remains focused on delivering incremental business value while project teams are empowered enough to prioritise the deliverables at their level according to the ever-changing business needs. 

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