Benefits in an Agile World

Agile Project Management is arguably the leading IT project development methodology in use today. It is also becoming increasingly accepted that an Agile approach has potential applicability across all business units in a diverse range of industries.

The traditional view that the benefits of a project or change initiative are realized after a project is complete, however Agile’s incremental capability delivery approach encourages benefit owners to continuously focus on the value created with each deliverable, relative to the business case which supported the project investment.

The ongoing feedback from benefits focused stakeholders when combined with project delivery teams should a range of insightful performance-based Lead Indicators to be generated.

Matt Williams

Matt Williams is the Managing Director of Connexion Systems, an Australian-based provider of innovative services and systems that enable project organizations to maximize business value generated from portfolios of capital investments.

Matt has spent the past 15 years advising PMO’s on governance and controls, and is a regular speaker at PMI, AIPM [Australia] and APM [UK] events on the topic of Benefits-led Portfolio Management.

Matt received his Project Management Professional [PMP] certification from the Project Management Institute in 2003.

In November, 2015, after successfully completing the New York marathon, Matt spoke at the annual Project Management Institutes’ PMO Symposium, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Matt presented the latest techniques for maximising the return on portfolio investment to avoid the common pitfalls of value exaggeration, value destruction and value decay.
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