Creating value for money

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• clearly describe the value of your work
• determine or estimate the benefits your work is expected to deliver
• identify opportunities for reuse, saving time and money

2. Working

You can:

• estimate the value of each item on your roadmap
• compare effort to value when deciding priorities
• decide when it's appropriate to reuse something, and when it's not
• decide how and when to escalate risk in achieving value
• discuss estimates with stakeholders to validate understanding
• analyse the benefit of investment against anticipated outcomes

3. Practitioner

You can:

• advocate for user needs, ensuring user value is balanced against cost and value for the organisation
• determine the benefit of a product and persuade others it's the right product to use
• write or contribute to business cases
• communicate business-value propositions
• help others make value-based decisions, influencing the direction of development

4. Expert

You can:

• develop and own a business case and iterate it throughout the life cycle
• coach others on identifying benefits whilst balancing user and business needs
• communicate the delivery of incremental value
• build the case for an organisational approach to value through product strategy
• coach and empower teams to take a value for money approach

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• consider economic criteria in decision making (close match)
• provide cost benefit analysis reports (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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