The DGA Programme Management service draws on the key skills of commercial and planning management and brings them together at a strategic level to offer an overview of project performance from inception to delivery; providing all stakeholders of complex projects and roll out programmes, with a full understanding of performance throughout the projects life cycle. In delivering this service we can review:
- Stakeholder Needs: examining conflicting and common interests of the stakeholder parties to the benefit of project delivery efficiences and mitigating future difficult issues.
- Technical Requirements: monitoring design and specification development to ensure consistancy with stakeholder needs.
- Project Variables: assessing the strategic implications of any external interference on the classic project variables of cost, value, time and quality.
- Project Controls: ensuring that good commercial governance leads to full contractual compliance, the reduction of business risk and positve cashflows relative to financing projections.
- Information Management: knowledge is key, ensuring that stakeholders are fully briefed to judge project team performance.
- Lifetime Outturns: assessing long term value for money, understanding project returns to investors, and measuring socio-economic benefits delivered to customers.
The primary purpose of this service is to facilitate informed business decisions. The Programme Management approach can be commissioned by any one of the projects key stakeholders, but maximum benefit is achieved when the service is delivered to the stakeholder community as a whole.