Maximizing Benefits from IT Project Management

Chapter 23

Structural Benefits

The project manager must maintain a focus on generating products that provide the greatest possible utility to the organization. This requires keeping a constant eye on the benefits and advantages that the project provides, because it will be through these benefits and advantages that the project achieves its final justification. This is a perspective so clear and obvious that is too often forgotten by project managers and project leaders.

For infrastructure projects, we are essentially acquiring and installing hardware components that have a long-term investment redemption period. These projects can involve such efforts as the renewal of the corporate local area network, the acquisition and installation of the ...