co-ordinated set of technical, administrative and financial tasks, intended to design, develop, manufacture and use a product or a system, satisfying a need under the best performance, quality, cost and time conditions as well as ensuring the support of it and finally the disposal

Note 1 to entry: All or part of a programme can be designated also in the industrial world and in some normative texts by the words "project", "contract", etc.

Note 2 to entry: When the notion of programme is associated with an overall system, the notion of sub-programme or project is frequently used when addressing the components of this system.

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Related definitions: life cycle (of a project/programme)