Have you experienced working in a program management? what's the difference you find between project management and program management?

Project management is the base of the program management. PgM is to provide oversight of the purpose and status of all projects in a Program. this oversight can be used to support project-level activity to ensure the overall program goals and benefits are likely to be met,

From my experiance in building5 Dams and1 mail channel55 KM long and some small channels around the city and to do that we need information provided by consultant and we deal with the study as a project also its been devided to3 stages in respect of time and the whole notion of this program is in urgency Did you get my point, to deal with all of these requirement in same time with same management effort and quality standard you have to companied it in one Program. Its all small project with unique results

Program is collection of related projects or a Big project divided into smaller sub projects... Program Management is managing collection of related project in a coordinated way. Due to shared resources, Program management could lead to 

 

1. Improved Management

 

2. Reduction of Risk

 

3. Economies of Scale

 

While each project has its objective, Program has same shared objective.. 

From a scope perspective, programmes are more complex in nature than projects; both work to achieve specific objectives, but programmes tend to have massive external factors, in which they need to manage as well.
Programmes comprise of a set of projects, so managing a programme is set on a high level, leaving detailed plans to the project management.
A key difference between programmes and projects, that programmes success is measured according to benefits realisation (the outcome for the company), whereas the project success is measured based on quality, timeliness and budget spent.
Think of it this way, there is a new strategy that needs to be achieved, and it’s quite different than the one used before.
In initial stages, a programme will be initiated to make sure the strategy is fulfilled, which will touch on different aspects, and will impact many areas, especially organisation culture (I always stress this, as this is the driver for organisation).
After stabilising this strategy, you may need to optimise the outcomes, for instance you want to automate a certain part, or improve customer satisfaction, this is where you initiate a project.

A program typically includes several projects that if grouped under one program could maximise efficiency and benefits, and also enable close monitoring and control.