Managing Government Digital Transformation Projects and Smart City Development

A working programme in government digital transformation projects for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.

📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for government digital transformation projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. A schedule for transformation projects without a critical path is a wish list with dates. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on government digital transformation projects and revise it on evidence. The course sets out a working method for this area of project and portfolio delivery that participants can apply the week they return. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about transformation projects in their own setting. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better government digital transformation projects is rarely technical. Moving transformation projects from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the practice within project and portfolio delivery that participants can repeat annually.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Plan resource and capacity for government digital transformation projects against other commitments.

02

Choose the delivery approach for transformation projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.

03

Integrate government digital transformation projects into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

04

Structure records of transformation projects so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.

05

Recover government digital transformation projects when it is behind, without pretending it is not.

06

Manage dependencies between transformation projects and other initiatives.

07

Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in government digital transformation projects.

Who Should Attend

01

Risk managers supporting government digital transformation projects.

02

Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around transformation projects.

03

Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring government digital transformation projects.

04

Business change managers handling adoption of transformation projects.

05

Technical leads delivering work packages within government digital transformation projects.

06

Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of transformation projects current.

Course Modules

01

Government digital transformation projects: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Measuring progress on government digital transformation projects honestly

  • Register the risks to government digital transformation projects with owner, probability and impact.
  • Agree what will be standardised in transformation projects and what will not.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for government digital transformation projects before it is needed.
  • Identify single points of dependency in transformation projects and reduce them.

Session 2Building lasting competence in transformation projects

  • Benchmark the organisation's government digital transformation projects against comparable operations.
  • Estimate transformation projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates government digital transformation projects is under control.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of transformation projects.
02

Transformation projects: governance, gates and decision rights

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Writing the scope of transformation projects including what is excluded

  • Build reporting on government digital transformation projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in transformation projects.
  • Manage supplier performance on government digital transformation projects against contract, not goodwill.
  • Hold a lessons session on transformation projects while memory is accurate.

Session 2Building the method for transformation projects step by step

  • Map stakeholders of government digital transformation projects by influence and current level of support.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to transformation projects.
  • Estimate the resource government digital transformation projects requires to run as designed.
  • Reduce the variation in how transformation projects is carried out between teams.
03

Transformation projects: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Keeping stakeholders of transformation projects genuinely supportive

  • Review whether government digital transformation projects is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Map the handovers in transformation projects between functions and secure them.
  • Review at each gate whether government digital transformation projects should continue at all.
  • Plan handover of transformation projects to the team that will operate it.

Session 2The risks to government digital transformation projects nobody wants to raise

  • Archive the decision record for government digital transformation projects so successors understand it.
  • Identify the critical path through transformation projects and the float elsewhere.
  • Confirm that those complying with government digital transformation projects understand why it exists.
  • Define the decision gates for transformation projects and what evidence each requires.
04

Transformation projects: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The hard cases in transformation projects and how to reason about them

  • Set the change control process for government digital transformation projects and require cost and time impact.
  • Write the scope statement for transformation projects including explicit exclusions.
  • Set out how exceptions to government digital transformation projects are requested and approved.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when transformation projects underperforms.

Session 2Pricing every change to transformation projects

  • Agree the escalation threshold for government digital transformation projects in advance.
  • Name a single owner for each element of transformation projects.
  • Rank the weaknesses in government digital transformation projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Identify where judgement in transformation projects is legitimate and where it is not.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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