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Delivery of a government department's e-business strategy

This consultant was engaged as Project Manager for a Government department working with the Head of IT to establish a series of projects for the delivery of the government’s e-business strategy. The programme was a £90m project comprising 10 individual projects.

The tasks undertook included:

• Establish the budget and negotiate with EDS the main suppliers for provision of service.
• The establishment of a PMO for the project, including all processes and procedures in line with Prince2 methodology.
• Recruitment of Project Managers, Business Analysts, Project Staff and the Admin Function.
• The preparation of a detailed Project Plan
• The preparation of a detailed Resource Plan.
• Preparing a strategic business case, obtaining feedback and sign off from the project sponsors.
• The establishment of several project boards, one for each project.
• The setting up of a Project Steering Committee and preparing all reports and presentations.
• The supervision of the team that prepared the business cases and business requirement documents this including providing guidance and ensuring clarity.
• Ensuring all projects had a PID, Project Plan, Project Brief and supporting documents
• This work was formally handed over to the permanent members of the team within the allocated timescales.

Budget £90 million