• Understand the business and organizational justification.
• Ensure that this justification is recorded.
• Ensure that those responsible validate the justification.
• Translate the justification into a list of benefits.
• Set objectives that make achieving these benefits possible.
• Assess and validate these in their context.

For the management of programmes and portfolios, you add the following:

• Ensure that the benefits are achieved.
• Start new initiatives when these are needed.
• Stop initiatives when these are no longer needed.

45min.