Under the P3M banner, managing the delivery of outcomes at a Program level remains, in our view, an emerging art. Through experience and qualification, Red Strokes Consulting is positioned to provide both advisory services to design and establish a program, and the ability to help staff key positions for the management of your Program’s lifecycle.
Program Management is the process of overseeing and coordinating multiple related projects to achieve broader organisational goals and objectives. It involves managing a collection of related projects that are aligned with a strategic vision, ensuring that they are completed successfully, within scope, on time, and within budget.
Key aspects of Program Management include:
Performance Monitoring: Tracking the progress of the Program and individual projects to ensure they meet performance metrics and milestones.
Strategic Alignment: Ensuring that the Program’s goals and objectives align with the broader organisational strategy.
Coordination of Projects: Managing multiple projects within the Program, ensuring they are integrated and working towards the same outcome.
Resource Allocation: Efficiently distributing resources (people, time, money) across the projects to ensure prioritisation of effort.
Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating risks that could affect the overall success of the Program.
Stakeholder Communication: Keeping all stakeholders informed and engaged throughout the Program’s lifecycle.
Benefits
Organisational investment demands a measurable improvement in some aspect of the business as a result of the investment. Where projects deliver outputs (things), Programs are designed to manage multiple project outputs to produce outcomes and manage the realisation of benefits.
Integration
Managing multiple concurrent or parallel projects can mean the duplication of a number of project functions. Integrating the projects under a Programmatic banner enables simplification, alignment and coordination through the development of single artefacts that are applicable to all Projects. Improved reporting metrics and narrative provide an integrated and consolidated view of progress and performance.
Empowerment
Providing program level governance (direction and assurance) across a number of common functions necessary to deliver project outputs and program performance enables project teams to focus on design and delivery rather than artefacts and governance. Staff understand common processes across interdependent teams which allows them to get on with their job.
Collaboration
Consolidated governance arrangements, team based resource planning and the management of an integrated master schedule provides greater visibility, transparency, improved decision making and enhanced collaboration within and across the Project teams.
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Program Management Playbook
Red Stokes Consulting has extensive experience in helping to establish Programs across multiple Government departments. Our approach is tried and tested, comprehensive and aims to leverage the best within your business to deliver the outcomes you need.
Our playbook will take you through what is needed and how we can help. If you have a looming investment program and you want to do things differently (perhaps better?), we would love to hear from you!
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