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Now the project is complete, working, implemented and rolled-out it’s finished. Wrong! 

Benefits Realisation

The product of the project is finished but has it done what the Business Case said it would? Has it brought the benefits it promised, the savings, improvements, the market edge etc? Where is the Return On Investment?

Until the Benefits Realisation exercise is carried out the project has simply replaced one system with another, changed procedures, introduced different practices etc.

Open Enterprise can help you develop a Benefits Plan and select an Analysis technique appropriate to the changes you predicted in the Business Case. We can help you conduct the Benefits Analysis and evidence the benefits so that the next time you go before the Board with a Business Case you will have positive proof that your Business Case arguments are reliable and carry substance.

Post-Mortems for Failed Projects

So you didn’t bother to take professional advice and now the project has failed and cost you, how much! Well, its possibly not entirely lost. The project Business Case was well costed, justified and – you thought – well managed. For a company who probably capitalises all software development projects, waiting until the project delivers before capitalising is overlooking the value of the deliverables already produced.

A project post-mortem can help you achieve two things. First it will help you identify how and why the project failed and ensure the ‘lessons learnt’ will not be repeated. Second, it will also help you identify re-useability of products already delivered and to value and capitalise them. At least they will become a Fixed Asset and can be re-used.

Open Enterprise will help you to ensure that not everything is lost.
 

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