Benefits Realization Management: A Practice Guide

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 PURPOSE

This practice guide describes benefits realization management (BRM) with a focus on products, services, results, or process improvement. BRM covers the day-to-day organization and management of the effort to achieve and sustain potential benefits arising from investments in portfolios, programs, and projects. BRM presents knowledge needed to conduct BRM regardless of the benefit's focus.

This practice guide:

• Provides a practical description of what BRM is;
• Defines the role and life cycle relationships of BRM to portfolios, programs, and projects;
• Describes why BRM is important;
• Identifies the key principles and critical success enablers needed to help an organization achieve the realization of planned benefits they ...