Résumé en anglais
For transmitting the spirit of heritage sites, the sitemanagement team shall know their responsibilities; in other
words has sound and well defined management plan. PMI(Project Management Institute, USA) has developed two
standards as guidelines for managing programs and managingproject. Under a MSc. dissertation, the PMBOK (Project
Management Body of Knowledge) guide was compared withtraditional “heritage sites management” practice, and was
concluded that project management approach is applicable formanaging cultural heritage sites as a new approach, and the
benefits were discussed (Hajialikhani 2006). This paper willdiscuss that program management, as a new methodology, may
be also adopted for managing cultural heritage sites to include allthe required activities.