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Bundesministerium für Finanzen (BMF)

Program management and controlling for the legacy-system replacement strategy

Objective

  • To modernize the Federal Ministry of Finance's tax IT, a dedicated program independent of line operations was set up.
  • The program's goal is the replacement of legacy systems, some more than 40 years old, in the area of federal levies.

Approach

  • Setting up a program structure based on the scaled agile framework SAFe.
  • Defining roles, responsibilities, program processes and decision paths.
  • Ongoing content quality assurance & controlling of all involved portfolios on a functional and technical level.
  • Advising program management on functional, technical and organizational decisions.
  • Content steering of portfolios and relieving subject-matter experts through targeted business analysis.
  • Standardizing and coordinating program-wide functional-technical decisions.
  • Strategic program planning across the entire duration.

Result

  • Successful replacement of legacy systems.
  • Sustainable, traceable and audit-proof documentation of all decisions.
  • Program planning: goal-setting at portfolio level to achieve the program goals.

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