@inproceedings {43238,
	title = {An Overview of the Understanding and Use of Assessment Methods in Benefits Management},
	journal = {25th IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2023)},
	year = {2023},
	month = {06/2023},
	publisher = { IEEE},
	abstract = {Evidence suggests that benefits management is critical for enabling greater value and for enhancing the positive impact of programs, projects, and portfolios. However, many organizations only focus their efforts on identifying the intended benefits, without conducting a proper follow-up through ongoing assessment or evaluation to ensure benefits realization. For this reason, this study aims to obtain an overview of the actual use of the assessment methods in benefits management, through a compilation and analysis of the literature following the Systematic Mapping Study methodology. The results and findings obtained show a significant gap in the interplay between the fields of assessment methods and benefits management. Based on this, we suggest opportunities for improvement, such as developing audit guides and frameworks for enhancing the monitoring of the benefits, strengthening the focus on external benefits of organizations, and for adapting benefits assessment to the changed perceptions of intended benefits, in line with continuous improvement.},
	keywords = {Assessment, benefits management, Literature Analysis, Literature Review, Project Management},
	isbn = {979-8-3503-1515-8},
	doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CBI58679.2023.10187441},
	author = {Jose David {Pat{\'o}n-Romero} and Jo Erskine {Hannay}}
}
@book {27964,
	title = {Benefit/Cost-Driven Software Development - with Benefit Points and Size Points},
	year = {2021},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	address = {Cambridge, UK},
	abstract = {This open access book presents a set of basic techniques for estimating the benefit of IT development projects and portfolios. It also offers methods for monitoring how much of that estimated benefit is being achieved during projects.Readers can then use these benefit estimates together with cost estimates to create a benefit/cost index to help them decide which functionalities to send into construction and in what order. This allows them to focus on constructing the functionality that offers the best value for money at an early stage.Although benefits management involves a wide range of activities in addition to estimation and monitoring, the techniques in this book provides a clear guide to achieving what has always been the goal of project and portfolio stakeholders: developing systems that produce as much usefulness and value as possible for the money invested. The techniques can also help deal with vicarious motives and obstacles that prevent this happening. The book equips readers to recognize when a project budget should not be spent in full and resources be allocated elsewhere in a portfolio instead. It also provides development managers and upper management with common ground as a basis for making informed decisions.},
	keywords = {benefit points, benefit/costs index, benefits management, earned business value management, periodization, uncertainty assessment},
	isbn = {978-3-030-74217-1},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-74218-8},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74218-8$\#$toc},
	author = {Jo Erskine {Hannay}}
}
@article {Hannay-Gjorven-2021,
	title = {Leveraging Network-Centric Strategic Goals in Capabilities},
	journal = {Journal of Military Studies},
	volume = {10},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {90-104},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	abstract = {The vision of network-centric operations is to increase operational capabilities through networked collaboration. NATO and its member nations state this vision in strategic documents at a very high level of abstraction. While suitable for giving an overall feel, current documentation renders the steps toward implementing those visions largely unsupported. We outline a method, based on agile requirements engineering, for converting high-level strategic visions into capabilities, whose form lend themselves to incremental implementation. We illustrate the use of this method in two cases that concern both operational capabilities and technical capabilities. We also\&nbsp; show how\&nbsp; the method enables one to prioritize\&nbsp; which capabilities to develop first. We conclude that some form of explicit methodology to span the gap between strategic visions and implementing those visions is necessary.},
	keywords = {benefits management, capabilities, requirements engineering, strategic goals},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2021-0001},
	url = {https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jms-2021-0001},
	author = {Jo Erskine {Hannay} and Gj{\o}rven, Eli}
}
