Guidance

Head of (agile) delivery management: skills they need

The skills needed by heads of (agile) delivery management in government.

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This is the standardised cross-government guidance for the head of (agile) delivery management role.

There are 3 other role levels in delivery management:

  • senior delivery manager
  • delivery manager
  • associate delivery manager

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Published 23 March 2017
Last updated 2 January 2019 + show all updates
  1. We have replaced content about the Civil Service Competency Framework with content about the new Civil Service Success Profile Framework.

  2. The description of the level of mastery (skill level) for the 'Financial planning' capability (skill) has been replaced to bring it inline with the rest of the Capability Framework.

  3. Version 2 of this guidance contains updated capabilities and some remapping of Civil Service competencies to the job role.

  4. First published.