Family B · Governing and deciding
Program management
Plan, cost and track delivery against outcomes, budget and milestones, widened upward to the corporate and strategic plan and outward to performance reporting and the annual report, so plan, programs and report are one record.
Program management (MG-13) is one of the twenty-one MeshGov services, in the "Governing and deciding" family. Plan, cost and track delivery against outcomes, budget and milestones, widened upward to the corporate and strategic plan and outward to performance reporting and the annual report, so plan, programs and report are one record. It replaces project portfolio tool, corporate plan documents and annual report assembled by hand. AI agents carry the work end to end; a named officer takes every decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
What it replaces
- Project portfolio tool
- Corporate plan documents
- Annual report assembled by hand
What it reacts to
- Plan adopted
- Milestone due
- Budget variance crosses threshold
- Reporting period closes
The agents that carry it
Planning agent
Links the strategic plan to programs and programs to milestones, and keeps the dependency map current.
Tracking agent
Tracks budget burn and slippage, flags risk early, and collects KPIs from the other services as they happen.
Reporting agent
Drafts performance reports and the annual report from live data rather than from a reporting-season scramble.
Where a person decides
No decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money is taken by an agent alone. In Program management, these decisions are held for a named officer, with the agent's evidence and recommendation attached.
| Decision | Who decides | Why a person |
|---|---|---|
| Scope, funding and re-baselining | Executive | Public money and commitments |
| Publication of a report | Accountable officer | Statutory reporting |
Records it writes
Strategic and corporate plan · Program record with milestones · Performance report · Annual report
Before MeshGov: the baseline this service is measured against
Programs tracked
11
under 4 strategic outcomes
Annual report effort
14 weeks
today, of collation each year
Milestones reported late
31%
today, at the quarterly review
KPIs collected by hand
88
today, from 9 systems
Levels of government: core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
Questions buyers ask about Program management
- What does MeshGov Program management do?
- Plan, cost and track delivery against outcomes, budget and milestones, widened upward to the corporate and strategic plan and outward to performance reporting and the annual report, so plan, programs and report are one record. It reacts to events such as plan adopted, milestone due and budget variance crosses threshold, and writes strategic and corporate plan, program record with milestones, performance report and annual report as records.
- What systems does Program management replace?
- Project portfolio tool, Corporate plan documents and Annual report assembled by hand. Because the service runs on the MeshGov platform, the licence, integration and upgrade costs of those systems retire with them.
- What do the AI agents do in Program management?
- The planning agent links the strategic plan to programs and programs to milestones, and keeps the dependency map current. The tracking agent tracks budget burn and slippage, flags risk early, and collects KPIs from the other services as they happen. The reporting agent drafts performance reports and the annual report from live data rather than from a reporting-season scramble.
- Which decisions does a person still take?
- Agents never take a decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. In Program management, a person decides scope, funding and re-baselining (executive) and publication of a report (accountable officer). The record shows who decided, why, on what evidence and under which delegation.
- Which levels of government use Program management?
- It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level. MeshGov was checked against the Australian Government Architecture, the AGA Business Reference Model, the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture and the UK Local Government Business Model, and serves government in any country.