Disseminate: The Harvesting--Reaping the Benefits
byHow to transition project deliverables to the customer.
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Driving the Business Benefit of IT Projects
byIn order to be optimally structured to execute its necessary changes and realize benefits, the business needs to have a well-positioned lead who is project managing the business’ project. So what are the key elements of this business project?
Who Owns Benefit Measurement?
byHow does your organization ensure that benefits realization occurs? For so many projects, there is never any measurement of whether projected gains were actually achieved. In this article, we look at how the PMO can assist in improving that situation.
The Secret of (Defining) Success
byDefining project success seems simple--achieve the triple constraint and then a project is successful. Or is it? This article features a principal customer engineer for a semiconductor foundry and a university deputy director discussing how to measure success on projects.
Back On Track: Reviving A Forsaken Transportation Project
byA forsaken Peruvian metro project is revived through a carefully coordinated public-private partnership and ample transparency.
Topic Teasers Vol. 43: Benefits Management Is Hard!
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Question: How much more can they heap on a project manager? Now I’m being asked to handle the benefits management for this project. There was nothing about this in my PMP prep course, or on the exam. Is the latest trend that anything no one wants to do becomes the responsibility of the PM? How do I proceed when I don’t even understand what this is?
Pick your answer then Test Your Knowledge!
| A. | Benefits management is now often asked of the project manager, but you should position yourself as the process facilitator, not the “responsible party”. Otherwise, they’ll blame you if the project benefits aren’t realized. |
| B. | Benefits management has to do with salary, union contracts, insurance, 401K plans, sexual harassment concerns and training classes. It is rightly positioned in the human resources department, not in a project environment. |
| C. | Since the outcome of your project is the sole indicator of whether or not the business objective will produce revenue, tracking benefits realization logically fits into the responsibility of the project manager. |
| D. | Tracking benefits management is a time inhibitor in a project plan. For that reason, if your project is to finish as estimated, benefits management should be outsourced to a third-party organization. |
The Coming Irrelevance of On Time, On Scope, On Budget
byEverything that you thought you knew will soon be wrong. Are you prepared for that? Project managers rarely give benefits a second thought. This needs to change, and in the near future it will change with an increasing focus on project management that prioritizes business benefits over arbitrary constraint compliance.
Building Your Project through Benefits Management
byThrough the efforts of benefits management, projects are kept accountable to the needs they are designed to support. Without the persistent review of a project to keep it focused on its original goal, there may be circumstances where what was delivered is a far cry from what was expected.
Change Management: The Paradigm Shift
byThe key contributor to project success will be the willingness of you and your organization to move the focus from the traditional three-legged stool to one that encompass both benefits realization and change management. This is a significant paradigm shift, but can pay huge dividends.
Tracking Project Benefits
byA project is only useful if it produces benefits to the organization or client. The project manager and project team should be prepared to track those benefits during the project lifecycle. Here we provide some things to keep in mind.
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