1. Introduction

As moving forward with DGA’s significant role in enabling and supporting governmental agencies by providing guidance throughout implementing best practices that aims of achieving the ultimate objective of the Saudi vision 2030 visions and long-term digital transformation strategy, this Guideline “Digital Project Management “ was developed in accordance for managing Digital Projects, and act as a supporter to digital projects managers in order to enable them to increase efficiency of services and bring about excellence in project management through applying best practices in such.

This Guideline is emphasizing on implementing the digital aspects in project management, as it identifies elements of digital projects’ success, and the steps should be applied to scale up planning and implementation standards. The Guideline also brings out the significant concepts and knowledge approaches required to manage digital projects by providing examples of tools used during projects’ life cycles.

2. Guideline Objectives

The Guideline’s main objective is to improve government agencies’ performance in executing digital projects through achieving the following:

• Fostering government agencies know-how of digital project management. ،Promote the adoption of digital project management methodologies and best international practices in government agencies.
• Clarifying the concept of projects’ life cycles, and the key activities throughout such projects.
• Elevate the quality and efficiency of the digital projects’ outcomes to ensure seamless and swift implementation.
• A reference for mechanisms and methods for managing digital projects, which can be relied upon when needed.

3. Guideline Scope

This guide covers the most common methodologies, methods and tools used in digital project management, through the following:

• Definition of the digital projects, and their objectives.
• Clarifying the enablers and influential factors of digital projects’ success in government agencies.
• The most significant approaches of planning and implementing the digital projects.
• The most significant areas of knowledge that will support the digital project manager to effectively manage the project.
• Emphasizing the importance of change management in the digital project, and defining the best change management-related tools.
• Providing an overview on Release Management, and its application mechanism of in the digital projects.
• Explaining and identifying methods of measuring the impact of the digital project.

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Guideline of Digital Project Management