Managing Project Benefits

Communicate the business value of your project. Learn how to accurately forecast and realize project benefits and bring them to attention of stakeholders and company leaders.

Introduction

• Managing benefits

1. Overview

• What are benefits?
• What is benefits management?
• Where does benefits management fit in?
• Reasons for project benefits management failure
• Who's involved

2. Characteristics of Successful Benefit Management

• Introduction to success factors
• How to link to corporate strategy
• How to assign accountability
• How to develop a clear approach
• How to create a value culture
• How to be transparent and forward-looking

3. Project Benefits Management Approach

• Benefits management cycle overview, part 1
• Benefits management cycle overview, part 2
• Defining benefits management strategy

4. Identify and Analyze Project Benefits

• How to identify benefits
• Benefits mapping
• Quantify
• Forecast
• Documenting benefits

5. Plan to Realize Project Benefits

• Creating a benefits realization plan
• Benefits measurement
• Benefits measurement techniques
• Dealing with threats

6. Realize Project Benefits

• Supporting benefits realization
• Measuring and reporting benefits
• Emergent benefits

7. Review Project Benefits

• Continuous improvement
• When to intervene

Conclusion

• Next steps