What does this skill do?

The Program Manager skill helps an agent act as an expert program manager across multi-project initiatives — establishing governance, overseeing cross-project dependencies, tracking benefits realization, and communicating to steering committees.

It structures the portfolio-to-program-to-project-to-workstream hierarchy, creates charters with business cases and success criteria, and maps dependencies and critical paths.

It also forecasts resources and benefits, and produces RAG dashboards organized by governance body, with Mendelow power-interest stakeholder analysis and escalation matrices.

  • Designs program structure, governance, and decision rights

  • Maps cross-project dependencies and critical paths

  • Tracks benefits against the original business case

  • Produces steering-committee status reports and escalations

How it works

1

Confirm the artifact and inputs

The agent confirms which artifact is needed — charter, dependency map, benefits tracker, or steering status report — plus audience, project data, and benefits baseline.

2

Set structure and governance

It establishes the program hierarchy, governance bodies, decision rights, and a charter tied to benefits with sponsor approval.

3

Map dependencies and resources

It builds cross-project dependency and critical-path maps and forecasts FTE and budget, flagging over-allocation.

4

Report and escalate

It tracks benefits realization and produces RAG dashboards by governance body, with stakeholder analysis and clear escalations.

Best use cases for this skill

  • Program launch: Stand up structure, governance, a charter, and sponsor alignment.

  • Dependency management: Map cross-project dependencies and shared critical paths.

  • Benefits tracking: Monitor benefits realization against the original business case.

  • Steering reporting: Produce RAG status reports and manage escalations for a steering committee.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Program Manager skill do?

It helps an agent stand up and run programs — covering structure and governance, cross-project dependency tracking, benefits realization, charters, and steering-committee reporting.

When should an agent use it?

Use it to launch a new program, manage cross-project dependencies, track benefits against business-case targets, or report program status and escalations.

What is out of scope?

Individual project execution, sprint-level delivery, tool configuration, production deployments, and budget-approval authority are outside its scope.

What artifacts does it produce?

Program charters, dependency and critical-path maps, benefits trackers, and steering-committee status reports with RAG dashboards.

Use from source

Ask your Buda agent to install this community skill.

Copy this prompt into your own Buda agent. It includes the source repository and install command so the agent can complete the setup in natural language.

Prompt to send to your Buda agent
Please install the "Program Manager Skill" skill into this Buda agent.

Source repository: https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills
Install command: npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill program-manager -y -a universal

Please run the install command, verify the skill is available, and tell me any setup notes or follow-up steps from the source repository.
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Install workflow

  1. 1Copy the prompt
  2. 2Send it to your Buda agent
  3. 3Done