The APS Program and Project Management Framework supports effective, consistent and accountable delivery across the APS. It will help you meet the very real challenges in your delivery teams, including complex stakeholder environments, tight timeframes, governance and legislative obligations, risk management and demonstrating public value.
These challenges are familiar to HR professionals, particularly when delivering workforce reforms, enterprise bargaining, major recruitment exercises, capability uplift initiatives or HR system implementations.
The framework provides an evidence‑based guide for staff working in program and project roles. You’ll find practical guidelines, tools, reflection activities and resources that support continuous improvement and best practice. It is part of a suite of three complementary frameworks – alongside the Customer Focus and Stakeholder Engagement Framework and the Program Data, Analysis and Intelligence Framework – designed to uplift end-to-end program management capability.
What this means for HR
As an enabling function, HR supports effective program and project delivery through workforce capability, sound governance and strong decision-making. The new framework supports your HR practice by reinforcing evidence-based approaches, supporting workforce and capability planning, and helping anticipate and identify capability gaps.
This is particularly relevant where HR is supporting time-limited, high impact or complex initiatives that require careful sequencing, assurance and risk management. It provides a shared language and practical references to better understand delivery environments and engage more effectively with program and project teams. This shared understanding can support clearer advice, stronger partnerships with business areas and more informed contribution to governance and decision-making.
The partnered Customer Focus and Stakeholder Engagement Framework supports this with human-centred design approaches, stakeholder engagement strategies and resources to recognise and address unconscious bias.
Together, these frameworks support all employees to build a more capable, confident and outcome-focused APS.