The role

The Programme Delivery Director worked with the Programme Director to oversee the delivery of the client’s vision for the programme. The role included:

• Managing dependencies of varying complexity, potentially planning and feeding into larger programmes and portfolios
• Removing blockers and managing risks, commercials, budgets and people
• Providing indepth knowledge of Agile and other methodologies
• Managing and communicating programme status to a complex stakeholder group, while balancing priorities
• Acting as initial escalation point for the programme a

Key outcome

• Coached a teams in Agile and Lean practices, creating new ways of working;
• Resolved high-risk commercial management issues.
• Mediated between all stakeholders and managed stakeholder expectations and facilitated discussions
• Solved several key issues that had blocked progress
• Created detailed budgets
• Managed the programme from a life-cycle perspective including identifying which tools and techniques should be used at each stage
• Developed a sustainable support model in order to identify and deal with potential risks across all stages of the product life cycle
• Maintained delivery momentum and actively addressed complicated risks, issues and dependencies
• Identified innovative ways to unblock issues
• Programme delivered on time and within agreed budget