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Hydra Framework is the most detailed process based methodology for programme management. It supports both Prince2 and the OGC's Managing Successful Programmes best practice but goes much further. Hydra Framework is structured in five layers to provide appropriate access to the programme management community dependant on need and role. It also contains Hypertext links to documents, templates and forms in Hydra Collaborator or other applications used for source documents.

This sets out the lifecycle of projects and programmes with which roles are needed at each stage, how work progresses between stages, is approved or not and how delivery is agreed. Hydra Framework will help you be more effective when executing the following process steps:

• Affinity Diagram
• Defining Benefits
• Benefits Breakdown Structure
• Business Architecture Blueprint
• Business Case
• FMEA - Failure Modes Effects Analysis
• Process Dashboards
• Product Breakdown Structure
• Programme & Project Health Checks
• Risks and Issue Management
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Vision Statements

Hydra Framework includes all the details for each step in program management giving:

• Roles of those involved in each step
• How the step is to be carried out
• Why the step is important
• What inputs are required in the step
• What outputs are generated in the step and what happens to them
• A basis for good program and project governance

Easy accessible templates exist for every single document. All this collected into a hierarchical and hyperlinked web site with additional mechanisms for searching and understanding the process including:

• Process road map
• Process document matrix
• Configuration and support section
• Project and program management techniques section
• Frequently asked questions
• Definitions of terms

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