Project Management

Key Result Areas of Digital Transformation Project Management

Project Manager of a digital transformation project is simply competency to lead, direct, and control the intention, enabler, plan, implementation and closure of a project that is defined to enable sustainable development agenda with information and communications technology

  1. Intention  It is about justified value to be communicated and created by the ICTD project.
    1. Mandate
    2. Strategy
    3. Business Case
    4. Project LogFrame
    5. Solution Framework
  2. Enabler It is about capability and capacity to bring about the intended outcomes of doing the project.
    1. Policy and Regulation
    2. Stakeholders
    3. Governance
    4. Funds
    5. Process
    6. Suppliers (Services and Materials)
    7. Technology
    8. Behavioral
  3. Plan It is about the designed proposal on what to do in order to deliver and support the mandated outcomes and to account the utilization of funds.
    1. Project Life Cycle
    2. Work Plan
    3. Control Plan
    4. Product Plan
    5. Financial Plan
    6. Procurement Plan
    7. Communication Plan
    8. Training Plan
  4. Implementation  It is about execution, monitoring, control and delivery of the work packages that compose the planned results of the project.
    1. Project Management Office
    2. Project Methodology
    3. Reference Standards
    4. Technology Configuration
    5. Work Packages
    6. Monitoring and Control
    7. Training
    8. Service Desk
  5. Closure  It is about the handover of project work packages to operation for the utilization of the project owners and customers -defined to create value on what the project have released as the solution for sustained development.
    1. Audit
    2. Evaluation
    3. Acceptance
    4. Contract Closure
    5. Hand-over

With change agenda in governance, we find the lining up of very good ICT4D project re-invented to talk of convergence, improvement, and security. (I have been on a “watch mode” of ICT4D projects since 2004)

When somebody is nominated and designated to assume the role of project manager, it means the person represents the competencies to connect with accountability, responsibility, expertise, and work of doing contextual and performance-based project management and to deliver the results indicated in the budgeted major final output of the organization.

The special status attached to the nomination and designation is about representation of credibility, capability and capacity to lead, direct and control the key result areas of ICT4D project management, namely,
1. Initiate and Justify
2. Organize and Train
3. Design and Plan
4. Execute and Control
5. Monitor and Evaluate
6. Release and Support
7. Close and Celebrate

The designated project manager is assumed to demonstrate with maturity the essential skills and knowledge to:
1. Elicit, visualize. analyze and integrate project requirements from multi-perspective presentation of mandates, needs, problems, influencers, opportunities, regulations. and supply and value chains.
2. Engage and communicate with project stakeholders and team for the usable information and affirmative action to deliver the defined and agreed results from start to end of project life cycle.
2. Compose, evaluate and present project business case to match the strategy, legal, financial, technical and political indicators of feasibility.
2. Create, validate and verify the project management plans about communication, product, activities, schedule, resource, budget, procurement, change, training and release.
3. Define and review project solution development processes related to requirements, design, building, testing, training, integration, release and support,
4. List and describe project activity metrics to be monitored as procured resources and work packages are delivered for review and acceptance.
5. Identify and evaluate project documentation specifications to properly capture, store and present information.
6. Select and use project management technology to support information and communication of doing the project management tasks.
7. Handle contract closure and participate in project audit.