CAPM Practice: Determine how to follow and execute planned strategies or frameworks

During project initiation, benefit planning requires stakeholder alignment on what benefits will be measured and how. Facilitating agreement and documenting this in the benefits management plan ensures clear expectations and proper benefit realization tracking.

**Why not A:** Deferring benefit planning to the execution phase is too late. Benefit planning should occur during initiation to establish clear expectations and alignment before significant resources are committed. Waiting until execution risks misaligned objectives.

**Why not B:** Tracking both metrics separately without formal agreement creates ambiguity about project success criteria. Without stakeholder alignment and documentation in the benefits management plan, there will be no shared understanding of what the project is expected to achieve.

**Why not C:** Focusing only on cost savings ignores legitimate stakeholder concerns about safety improvements. Benefit planning requires incorporating input from all relevant stakeholders to ensure the benefits management plan reflects a comprehensive and agreed-upon set of measurable outcomes.