Benefits Management


You’re not a program manager if you don’t manage benefits, that is, deliver value to the organization rather then merely work packages.

I suggest you read articles 1 through 6 below in the series below to get you started with benefits management. Benefits Management can be confusing to get your head around if you haven’t done it before, but article six in the series ties everything together with a practical example, so hang in there!

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Scenario Planning and Program Management

In its most broad sense scenario planning is a strategic planning tool that can help organizations make adaptive long term plans. This is done based on consideration of the major changes and trends taking place in the world, such as

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Benefits Mananagement Part 5: An Example

In the previous 4 parts of this series we walked through all the theory behind creating a Benefits Dependency Network. In this final part of the series we’ll walk through an example of a BDN to make the practice behind …

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Benefits Management, Part 4: Outcomes, Projects, Enablers, and the Benefits Dependency Network

In the part 3 of this series, Identifying Benefits, we looked at creating Objectives and from these, creating Benefits. You may remember that in order for a Benefit to be realised there needs to be some form of deliverable, that we refer to …

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Benefits Management, Part 3: Identifying Benefits

As described previously, the first step in the Benefits Management Process is to identify the benefits we want to achieve. Benefits don’t exist in isolation, and so we start this process by determining the objectives.

You can think of objectives …

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