Using Talmix For...Program Management
What’s the demand?
The demand for program and project managers is driven by companies needing to accelerate their project delivery as they are impacted by increasing competitive pressures, economic challenges, and the constant drive for transformation, both technological and organisational.
Effective program management underpins these strategic initiatives and leads to successful project execution. Strong program management capabilities are essential to achieve organizational goals, manage resources, and drive complex transformations across the spectrum of AI, digital and change management programs.
As a result, businesses require program managers who can deliver strategic value, adapt to changing conditions, and align to overall business objectives. Complex projects and environments, particularly when there are major events like mergers, organisational restructuring, technology integrations replacing legacy systems, can mean that program managers need to be both agile in updating processes and outcomes, and very structured, to manage across functions, teams, and requirements.
What’s involved?
Program management projects typically include:
- Developing Comprehensive Program Plans: Detailed plans that outline program goals, timelines, resources, and include management of risk and strategies for changes to scope and requirements.
- Project Coordination: Aligning projects across the program, and across teams, functions and locations to achieve overall objectives.
- Resource Management: Allocating resources efficiently across projects to optimize performance and identify potential areas where additional bandwidth may be needed, or where projects are over-resourced and therefore at risk of running over budget.
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identifying potential risks and implementing strategies to mitigate them, with what-if scenario planning to visualise outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Communicating with stakeholders to ensure their needs and expectations are met, providing regular and agreed reporting, ability to present impact assessments, and maintaining their support throughout the program lifecycle.
- Establishing, Tracking and Reporting of KPIs: Monitoring progress, measuring performance against goals, and providing regular updates to stakeholders and the wider team audience.
What skills are needed?
Program management requires both leadership and technical expertise, combining hard and soft skills:
- Project Management Methodology Experience: Knowledge of processes and methods like Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall, Agile, Six Sigma and Lean Methodology as examples
- Project Management Certifications like PRINCE2, APM
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans to align with business goals.
- Project Coordination: Skills in managing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring alignment and integration across initiatives.
- Resource Allocation: Expertise in optimizing the use of resources to achieve program objectives
- Risk Management: Proficiency in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to ensure program success.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong communications skills to engage with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and maintaining their support.
- Performance Measurement: Competence in tracking and analyzing program performance, and providing actionable insights for improvement.
- Advanced Tools Proficiency: Expertise in using software and tools such as Asana, Microsoft Project, Jira, to manage and track program activities.
Why turn to Talmix?
Using external independent business talent for program management can offer significant advantages. Talmix provides on-demand access to experienced program managers globally from a network of 65,000, who can quickly integrate with your team and drive immediate improvements. These experts bring a wealth of knowledge in program management, gained from formal backgrounds in strategy and management consultancy, and in-house practical use at leading blue chips globally.
By engaging external talent, organizations can address urgent program management needs, enhance their internal capabilities, and achieve immediate effectiveness. This allows companies to immediately act on recently identified risks, bring in specific expertise to drive a project forward, and simply augment capabilities to accelerate program success. Over time, these professionals can also help in upskilling internal teams, refining processes, and delivering sustained business value.
Getting Started with Talmix
If you want to bring in PM expertise, and increase your bandwidth to improve your outcomes, then you can post your requirements straight away on the Talmix marketplace. It’s a very intuitive, streamlined process where you can elaborate on the specifics to ensure a perfect match.
If you want a little more advice on scoping then you can post the project basics and our customer success team can help you draw out specific screening questions, talent types and budgets. Get started now and you could address this need faster than you’d anticipated.