Project management as an important branch of management science, has been widely used in construction, information technology, finance, software development, aerospace, government agencies, and many other industries. Project management is a highly integrated application of economic and technical work, is an important enterprise management thinking. Today's society, as an economic management and other related majors, the mastery of project management ideas, methods, the basic principle is particularly important.

Objectives
To explain why project management is crucial in today's world.
To define a project and differentiate projects from routine operations
To establish the importance of projects in implementing organization strategy
To introduce the concept of a project maturity model that traces the evolution of project management systems.
To establish managing projects is an act of balancing the technical and socio / cultural sides of the project
To make students aware of the Project Management Institute that is made up of over 75,000 project management professionals.

Programme goals and responsibilities of senior management leading large international programmes such as Crossrail, should be clarified to ensure decisions reached meet the objectives and are in the best interest of the Programme. There should be a clearly written scope and appropriate contract. Technical specifications and functional requirements need to be clearly defined early in the project or they could potentially delay the project and lead to an increase in cost. Budgets and financial models need to be produced accurately considering the change environment and potential issues and cannot based on the most optimistic conditions
Also, it is important that mega programmes undergo regular evaluations to note potential issues and develop mitigating actions earlier in the project than