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

During project initiation, aligning stakeholder expectations with realistic benefit planning is critical. Facilitating a discussion ensures leadership understands when value will be realized and allows for informed decision-making about whether to proceed, adjust scope, or modify expectations.

**Why not B:** Revising the project scope to force immediate benefits may compromise quality or feasibility. Benefits realization timelines are often inherent to the nature of the deliverable, and artificially compressing them could lead to unrealistic commitments or incomplete value delivery.

**Why not C:** While benefits realization may extend beyond project closure, the project manager should not simply ignore the misalignment in expectations. Proceeding without addressing the gap between leadership's expectations and the realistic timeline risks stakeholder dissatisfaction and loss of support.

**Why not D:** Requesting additional budget to accelerate the timeline assumes that money alone can speed up benefits realization, which is often not the case. The first step should be ensuring expectations are aligned before committing additional resources to an approach that may not be feasible.