SFIA Skill
Programme management PGMG
The identification, planning and coordination of a set of related projects within a programme of business change, to manage their interdependencies in support of specific business strategies. The maintenance of a strategic view over the set of projects, providing the framework for implementing business initiatives, or large-scale change, by conceiving, maintaining and communicating a vision of the outcome of the programme. The vision, and the means of achieving it, may change as the programme progresses.
Programme management: Level 7
Aligns the objectives for information systems activities with business change objectives, and authorises the selection and planning of all related projects and activities. Plans, directs, and co-ordinates activities to manage and implement complex interrelated projects from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage. Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to the programme. Leads the programme teams in determining business requirements and translating requirements into operational plans. Determines, monitors, and reviews all programme economics, including programme costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, programme resources, and programme risk, ensuring that there are appropriate and effective governance arrangements, supported by comprehensive reporting. Evaluates changes to programme management practices and initiates improvement to organisation practices.
Programme management: Level 6
Plans, directs, and co-ordinates activities to manage and implement interrelated projects from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to the programme. Leads the programme team(s) in determining business requirements and translating requirements into operational plans. Determines, monitors, and reviews all programme economics to include programme costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, programme resources, and programme risk. Ensures that programme is managed to realise business benefits and that programme management is informed by an awareness of current technical developments.