Program Control
Keywords:
- Scaling of Methods, Processes, Tools dependent on Program Complexity
- Cost Baseline / Business Case
- Benefits Management / Value Engineering
- Budget and Contingency Management
- Export Control
Background Experience available at Novo Artifact Consulting:
- Member of the Management Board and the Budget Advisory Committee, as well as a regular participant to the Executive Project Board of a €20bn mega-Program [21]
- Involvement in highly complex Programs, such as Hermes Spaceplane, Airbus A320, A330/340, A380, A350, A400M, ITER, in different roles and during different lifecycle phases, covering ‘Make’ and ‘Buy’ work scopes [09] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [21]
- Responsible for the setup, implementation and leadership of an entirely new department to enhance the company’s Project and Program Management capabilities [17]
- Major contributions to the development of the Business Case for a mega-project [13]
- Responsible for significant improvements on controlling methods, processes, tools for individual Programs, inc. for their business cases and performance baselines [19] [21]
- Responsible for the setup of the Program Management Plan for a mega-Program [21]
- Responsible for, or at least contributed to, the setup and maintenance of a Program’s master plan and detailed schedules (resource-loaded or not) [08] [09] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [21]
- Responsible for the setup of Program business cases / baselines, and for the monitoring and controlling of the status of the former against the latter [19] [21]
- Responsible for maintenance of Workforce Planning and Costs in the Program’s Performance Baseline of a mega-Program [21]
- Responsible for a Program’s Cost Control [19] [21]
- Leading strategic capital investment Projects for plant efficiency improvements in support of Programs [16] [15]
- Large experience with business development and business improvement Projects aiming for cost reduction / cost avoidance in support of Programs [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [18] [19] [21]
- Responsible for the efficient supply management of Project Management and Project Control resources (internal staff or contractors) on a per demand basis to Projects, thereby generating cost savings. [17] [21]
- Responsible for continuous improvement of execution capabilities of Project Managers and other members of Development Teams in charge of ca. 500 Programs, demonstrated via periodic measurement of globally accepted KPIs [19]
- Many years of experience with budgeting cycles (i.e. budget requests, challenge rounds, budget execution, execution savings) [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [21]
- Contributions to the management of Value Propositions [22]
- Responsible for Value Engineering based Target Costing for commercial aircraft program [22]
ITER: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
The numbers in brackets refer to positions as stated in the CV of Hans-H. Altfeld; it can be downloaded from this site under 'About me'
Typical PDCA Content:
EC: Export Control; MPT: Methods, Processes, Tools; PDCA: Plan – Do – Check – Act

- Assessment of Program Complexity and consequential level of MPT sophistication required
- Master Schedule
- Revenues‘ Planning
- Contingencies Planning
- Setup of Cost Baseline / Business Case
- Planning of Annual Budgets
- EC: Identification of Sanctioned and/or Dual-Use Items

- Release of Budgets
- Expenses‘ Approvals
- Accounting
- EC: Request for License for, and Control of, Receipt, Storage and Delivery of Items under Export Control

- Assessment of Deviations of Budget and Revenue
- EC: Check of Existence of Licenses and Adherence to Processes for Items under Export Control

- Actions Management (Recovery)
- Implementation of Measures leading to less Budget Consumption
- Management of Budget Contingencies
- EC: Action Management (Adjustments to License and Process Adherence)
