Program Benefits Sustainment Plan
How can program benefits sustainment plan support strategic choice or positioning?
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Purpose. Use this plan to maintain the conditions that allow programme benefits to continue accruing after transition. It turns the handover commitments in the benefits transition plan into enduring operational mechanisms, measures, responsibilities and responses. Application. Treat it as a living document. Customer demand, operating capacity, technology, regulation, strategy and other environmental conditions can change after the programme closes, so the receiving organization must be able to detect change and ada
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Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this plan to maintain the conditions that allow programme benefits to continue accruing after transition. It turns the handover commitments in the benefits transition plan into enduring operational mechanisms, measures, responsibilities and responses.
Application
Treat it as a living document. Customer demand, operating capacity, technology, regulation, strategy and other environmental conditions can change after the programme closes, so the receiving organization must be able to detect change and adapt without losing the intended value.
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Actual start date
A. Purpose
Purpose
B. Benefit definitions
Definition of each program benefit
C. Success factors
Sustainment critical success factors
D. Assumptions
Assumptions
E. Measurement
Metrics and procedures for measuring benefits
F. Roles and responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities for benefits sustainment
G. Communications
Benefits-sustainment communications plan
H. Sustainment risks
Benefits-sustainment-related risks
I. Process and system changes
Required changes to processes and systems
J. Approvals
Program sponsor, Program manager, Program management office director, Governance Board chairperson
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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