Assignment task:
A BDN is a visual representation that shows how activities (projects) generate benefits, and how these benefits contribute to bigger benefits. As part of a Benefits Management Framework, it shows how individual projects and programmes contribute to the strategic objectives (and the success) of the organisation.
A Benefits Dependency Network (BDN) (or Benefits Map) makes your projects more successful. Not by itself, but because of the way it makes you focus.
BDNs show, on a page, interdependent projects; how they combine to create outcomes and business change; and how this creates benefits which deliver business objectives (goals).
Conduct some research on the topic and answer the following questions:
What is the main purpose of creating a benefits Dependency Network?
What is the difference between a benefit map and a strategy map?
Prepare a BDN for any project of your choice and explain to the class using the whiteboard.