Software Development Portfolio

Provide a Centre of expertise and develop consistent standards and procedures, including templates, and guidance in tailoring across a range of programs and projects Implement guidelines, procedures, and templates to collect and maintain consistent data and provide hands-on delivery support to a program or project Coordinate information about how programs and projects run the standard program or project management methods, their progress, and problems Facilitate creation and update of program or project plans as required by the program/project manager. Identify where cross dependencies exist and track/monitor these in support of the program/project manager Establish and maintain baselines Facilitate the design, development, and ownership of the program or project plan, ensuring that all milestones and internal and external dependencies are identified, logged, and monitored Establish and operate a mechanism to track the delivery of programs or projects against the plan, update progress against the plan Run facilitated workshops on start-up, risk, planning, issues, etc.Perform program and project fast-track start-up and closure assistance Design and support governance/reporting for programs and projects Implement an agreed regular progress-reporting mechanism for all programs and projects, and thereby monitor the routine progress of programs/projects, and assist the program/project manager in preparation of the program/project status reports Provide regular reports to boards, including a commentary on performance, coordinating upward aggregation of data/information and reports highlights reports, program status reports, management dashboards Develop and establish risk, issue, dependency, and change-control processes and templates, and assist the program and project team in their delivery Facilitate the quality review process for programs or projects Maintain the list of stakeholders and their interests and facilitate the formulation of the stakeholder engagement strategy Assist Program/Project Manager and customer with transition management.