This document summarizes a workshop led by the Government IT Profession Delivery Management group. It discusses challenges facing the UK, the Government IT Profession, and delivery management. Specifically, it notes the need to improve skills and bring together different parts of projects to successfully deliver outcomes. Next steps proposed include continued skills development, engagement with other groups, and upcoming conferences and courses.

1. Delivery Management and
IT Professionalism
A workshop led by members of the
Government IT Profession
Delivery Management group.

2. Overview
• UK challenge
• IT Profession challenge
• Delivery Management challenge
• Future challenge
• How can we help each other?

3. UK challenge
Capable People
Information Assurance Strategy
Better Delivery through Portfolio
Green IT Strategy
collaborative procurement
Better value through
& Programme Mgmt Open Source,
Data Centre
Reuse Strategy,
Strategy Standards
Government Secure
G-Cloud
“as a”
Shared Service
System Common
Public Sector Desktop
Network Strategy
Shared Services built once

4. Government IT Profession challenge
Government IT Profession exists to
increase the capability & capacity
of IT Professionals and IT teams
across the public sector to deliver
excellence in all areas of IT
35,000 - 50,000 individuals
£13.5bn annual spend in IT

5. World class skills to
• Deliver technology change
• Enable benefit delivery
• Meet expectations of policy,
citizens, business at reducing cost
• Deliver more for less

6. Through …
• Competencies e.g. SFIA
• Development e.g. IT Academy
• Networking e.g. Competency
groups, other professional groups
• What else?

7. Skills Framework for the Information
Age (SFIA) v4
Strategy and architecture
Business change
Solutions development and
implementation
Service management
Procurement and
management support
Client interface

8. Government IT Profession
competency groups

9. Delivery Management challenge
• How do we bring the show
together to stop it falling apart?
• More than the sum of the parts
• Delivery Manager skills
• Breadth

10. DM group members
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11. Delivery Management group
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ensuring that the
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challenges is
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challenge get your weather
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professionals can give the forecast everyline with the
systems in day. If our
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weeks before.
challenges – as the press would civil aviation!
We can’t afford errors.
coverage testifies!

12. Next steps
Seminars • Continue to build capability and
Digital inclusion (October) capacity
Emotional Intelligence
(November)
• Continue to engage with Socitm (and
others)
• IT Academy (free) seminars
• IT Profession conferences
– Delivery Management (Spring 2010)
• IT Profession extranet (Autumn 2009)
• IT Academy courses

13. What more can we do by working
together?

14. Are you a delivery manager?
?

15. More information
Neil Moore
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
National Competency Lead for Delivery
Management
neil.moore@hantsfire.gov.uk
Government IT Profession
www.civilservice.gov.uk/networks/professional/it
itprofession@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk