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Live Webinar – June 15th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 15th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Use Benefits Management To Keep Your Senior Managers
On A Leash, Walking To Heel & Even Jumping Through Hoops!

  • Are you running a kennels for pet projects?
  • How do you choose the right projects and check whether they actually worked?

Keeping your portfolio of projects organised and prioritised is difficult at the best of times, but if you have no common definition of success or means of comparison, how will you know whether or not a project should be funded?

If investment decisions are made based on who does the best ‘puppy dog eyes’ (or barks the loudest) how do you keep the pet projects out of your portfolio and concentrate on your most valuable initiatives?

Do you recognize the following challenges in your organisation?

  • A lackadaisical ‘and then a miracle occurs attitude’
  • The Goldilocks business case (one option too hot, one too cold and one just perfect!)
  • The Pit Bull Terrier sponsor whose definition of success is that ‘the kit has been delivered!’
  • Shiny New Toy Syndrome: someone saw the product at a trade show and thought it looked ‘sexy’.

If you answered ‘yes,’ to any of these, then benefits management is for you. It provides a logical, repeatable discipline: a means of organising a portfolio of work and prioritising the Crufts winners over the tatty mongrels.

The webinar will build on the content and worked example in the recently released APM Learning module on benefits management.

While it is not required reading, delegates may find it useful to familiarise themselves with the module before attending the webinar. APM Learning is available to individual members with Associate or higher grades.

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APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition reference
Section Description
1.1.4
2.3.3
3.1.1
4.1.1
  •      Benefits to the organisation
  •      Adoption and benefits realisation
  •      Stakeholders
  •      Success and benefits

Merv Wyeth FAPM (LinkedIn profile) is the UK Service Delivery Partner of Amplify: an enterprise software solution for benefits-led portfolio management.  Previously, during a 25-year police service career, Merv performed a mix of operational and support roles including PPM and business change and benefits management. Merv is now a Better Business Case, Open Strategies and Managing Benefits practitioner and also is the APM Benefits Management SIG Secretary and fellow of the APM. He is a co-organiser of the Business Case Practitioner Forum and a member of PMI Virtual Events team. Merv is well-known as an ‘activist’ in the benefits management

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Tackling The Problem Of Pet Projects With Benefits Management

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