In too many projects, benefits are expected to materialise later in the project after all the creative ideas have been developed. However, projects will run into difficulties as soon as key stakeholders’ personal expectations of benefits do not look like materialising. Benefit identification should be part of the project inception but it is never too late to carry it out.

This course teaches a practical way to express quantifiable benefits that are relevant and understandable to the business stakeholders and with a much wider scope than purely financial measures. The techniques are applicable to any project or programme of work that seeks to make a real business impact.

Course Objective

To provide the skills to identify benefits as unambiguous requirements that can be delivered by project teams.

Who Should Attend

The course requires no specialist knowledge. The course will benefit anyone involved in the early development of programme objectives and project requirements or people reviewing and providing assurance for programmes and projects.

Benefits of Attendance

Delegates should be more successful in getting business cases approved and in meeting the real requirements of stakeholders.

Duration and Venue

One day at either a training location or the client’s site.

Outcomes

Delegates will learn how to:

• Understand the performance/benefit relationship.
• Elicit benefit requirements from stakeholders in quantifiable terms.
• Quantify benefits and risk.
• Work with the time dimension of benefit realisation.
• Understand the benefits realisation process.

Course Outline

• Introduction: How people think about benefits.
• The concept of stakeholder owned benefits.
• Constructing a “Scale of Measurement”.
• Benchmarks and timing.
• Identifying the risks in terms of uncertainty and variability.
• Practical exercise.
• Benefit identification in the realisation process.

Further Information

Tel: +44(0) 7830 9657

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