“Most IT Projects are useless and deliver no value” – Bold Statement of The Week

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• Posted on September 10, 2020September 13, 2020
• by Andrew Servania

During a university lecture today, the lecturer shared a provocative statement, saying that most IT projects are ineffective at delivering value and does not contribute anything useful. Even when a technically sound deliverable has been made, the deliverable provides no value to the business. I would like to argue otherwise. But I’ll get to that. […]

Deliverables 2.0. They are called “Benefits”

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• Posted on September 8, 2020September 9, 2020
• by Andrew Servania

In my last post I touched the topic of benefits a little bit and the fact that an entire framework has been created to manage them. I spent some time today reading more into this and I’m slowly starting to understand what benefits actually are and why organizations want to manage these. At first I […]

Your Project is Generating Lots of Benefits? Manage Them As Well!

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• Posted on September 7, 2020September 8, 2020
• by Andrew Servania

Today I would like to focus in short on the whole idea of managing benefits in the context of project management. So what exactly is a benefit? To answer that, I’ll quote the following sentence: “A benefit is defined as a gain realized by the organization and beneficiaries through portfolio, program, or project outputs and […]