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.