What is Program Integration Management?
Program integration management coordinates everything that crosses component boundaries: interdependencies, shared resources, cumulative risk, combined change impact, and the assembly of component outputs into program-level benefits. It's the discipline that makes ten projects one program rather than a folder of ten projects.
Its working artifacts are cross-component: the dependency map, the integrated master schedule, program-level risk register, and the benefits register that no single component owns.
Worked example
In an airport-terminal program, the baggage-system component tests fine and the building component finishes fine — but integration management is who noticed, a year earlier, that the baggage vendor needed structural penetrations frozen six months before the builder planned to freeze them. One integrated schedule line prevented a redesign neither project would have seen coming.