Release of the Major Digital Projects Report 2025
The Australian Government is delivering 110 strategically significant digital projects with a total investment of $12.9 billion. The DTA’s understanding of project performance is improving for projects that fall under assurance oversight.
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has released the Major Digital Projects Report 2-25 following our first release of digital project data on 7 February 2024. As an annual publicly available report, the Major Digital Projects Report is designed to ensure Australians can understand what initiatives are being invested in and, importantly, how they are performing.
Since the 2024 digital project release, central oversight of the Government’s most complex and strategically significant digital projects has increased to 110 active investments valued at $12.9 billion, of which an additional $6.7 billion has come under central assurance oversight in the past year.
“The report highlights the Australian Government’s commitment to strengthening the design, delivery and planning of major digital projects, as well as detailing the reforms underway to support their successful delivery,” explains Chris Fechner, CEO, DTA.
“We’re working with agencies to reduce the size and complexity of digital projects to improve their chances of success.”
Over 61.3% of all Tier 1 and 2 investments are reporting strong delivery confidence. The number of projects reporting delivery confidence assessments has also increased from 52.1% to 98.4% from February 2024 to February 2025.
Our understanding and visibility of project performance is improving as our efforts have seen a 46.3 per cent increase in the number of delivery confidence assessments being reported. These assessments provide point-in-time likelihoods of a digital project delivering the expected benefits for Australians on time and on budget. These assessments are based on the current resource management, solution design, and level of governance and leadership in delivery management of these projects.
Currently, 98.4 per cent of all flagship digital investments (Tier 1) and strategically significant digital investments (Tier 2) now report a delivery confidence assessment. Of these assessments, 80.3 per cent were completed by independent assurers..
Over the past 12 months we have seen most projects entering central oversight as Tier 2 and Tier 3 reflecting our ongoing efforts to move away from higher-risk large and complex projects to smaller, ‘bite-size’ projects where possible.
In addition to previous announcements on the new Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) program launching in early 2025 and the new?Benefits Management Policy, the report highlights a range of new reforms focussed on reducing risk through robust assurance and governance, increasing the quality and visibility of critical project information and strengthening project closure processes to ensure robust approaches to governance, risk, benefits and assurance.
“Good governance of digital projects begins with transparency,” explains Mr Fechner. “Openness ensures agency approaches and decisions are receptive to feedback, foster trust across stakeholders, and accountability.”
Key reforms associated with increasing transparency and accountability to support good decision making will be crucial in ensuring investment across all sectors to improve agency systems, meet digital standards and enable them to provide simple, secure and seamless services to Australians.?
To learn more, please explore the Major Digital Projects Report.