Managing Project Benefits

Projects wouldn't proceed unless we could anticipate their benefits. But do you make those benefits apparent to stakeholders? The better you can communicate the business value of your project, the more opportunities you'll encounter as a project manager. Learn how to forecast benefits for your projects and measure and report on their achievement, with these tips from Claudine Peet. Claudine provides practical advice on identifying benefits and the key factors you need to realize them, from linking benefits to corporate strategy to holding team members accountable. She explains how to forecast benefits within the project life cycle and document them in a benefits register. Finally, she explains how to realize maximum benefits during product delivery and measure benefit achievement.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Overview
• 2. Characteristics of Successful Benefit Management
• 3. Project Benefits Management Approach
• 4. Identify and Analyze Project Benefits
• 5. Plan to Realize Project Benefits
• 6. Realize Project Benefits
• 7. Review Project Benefits
• Conclusion