Elements and Performance Criteria
- Authorise projects
- Analyse needs, in consultation with client and relevant stakeholders, to justify each project and to designate project managers
- Conduct project selection and prioritisation within guidelines provided by, or under the direction of, a relevant (governance) authority
- Make project authorisation recommendations to relevant authority as basis for future project management activities, and commitment of resources and effort
- Define and plan program scope
- Define projects’ objectives, major deliverables and resource requirements at project and program level, and confirm with governance group or relevant authority
- Determine and agree measurable project outcomes and benefits to enable quantified evaluation of program performance
- Develop, agree on, and communicate scope definition, scope management strategies, and plans
- Align program scope to business requirements and organisational strategy
- Manage program scope
- Conduct regular program reviews to measure project performance and ensure stated program and business/strategic objectives are met
- Establish and maintain a change management system to form basis of ongoing scope management
- Conduct reviews of scope changes and take action to ensure project and program objectives are achieved or modified
- Measure project outcomes against defined program scope and aligned strategic objectives
- Communicate results of program outcomes to relevant authority
- Pass on scope management lessons learnt to higher project authority for application in planning and implementation of later projects within the program