Illustrative Reference profiles for a generic digital health care organization, not official job descriptions. About this reference.

Maintaining delivery momentum

Delivery management involves improving the speed and efficiency with which products and services are developed.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

This skill level is currently not defined.

2. Working

You can:

  • actively address internal risks and issues and know when to escalate them
  • set the team cadence and tempo, ensuring it is sustainable
  • track, manage, escalate and communicate dependencies
  • actively remove or minimise risks, issues or dependencies where possible
  • understand how the risks, issues or dependencies impact the work of a team
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo
  • actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team
4. Expert

You can:

  • optimise the delivery flow of teams
  • actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists
  • identify innovative ways to unblock issues

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

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

Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Associate delivery managerDelivery manager5Working
Delivery managerDelivery manager7Practitioner
Senior delivery managerDelivery manager8aExpert
Head of delivery managementDelivery manager8cExpert
Program delivery managerProgram delivery manager8bExpert
Senior program delivery managerProgram delivery manager8cExpert