The Stationery Office Managing Benefits

This guide provides managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide variety of organizations, and in all sectors, with generally applicable guidance encompassing the principles, practices and techniques of benefits management. Specifically, this guide provides: An overview of benefits management – what it is, the case for doing it, and some common misconceptions that can limit its effectiveness in practice. Descriptions of the seven principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are built, and examples of how they can be applied in practice. Details of the five practices in the benefits management cycle, and examples of how they can be applied in practice. Guidance on how to apply benefits management at a portfolio level as well as at an individual project or programme level. Advice on how to get started in implementing effective benefits management practices and how to sustain progress New to the 3rd Edition: The new edition of Managing Benefits takes the opportunity to incorporate examples, case studies and references from the industry developments made since the previous edition a decade ago. Jenner has enhanced the guidance to reflect developments in related areas such as project, programme and portfolio delivery frameworks (including Praxis); strategy execution and the relationship between benefits and the OKR framework; and clarification on how benefits management is relevant to all project and programme delivery methodologies, including agile, hybrid and the more traditional methodologies.