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Benefits
The benefits of implementing the practices described within the Enhanced Framework include:
- A more open and cooperative development environment between IT staff and client staff;
- A greater understanding and appreciation of the risks involved in software development projects and the necessity of managing these risks. Continuous risk management provides a disciplined environment for proactive decision making, to assess continually what could go wrong, to determine which risks are important to deal with and to implement strategies to deal with those risks.
- Increases in productivity, thus allowing more development with same staff complement;
- Decreases in the costs to deliver a project thus allowing development budgets to go further;
- Improved client satisfaction as a result of quality improvements and a reduction in calendar time to deliver projects;
- Reductions in defect and error rates;
- Schedule improvements, including a significant reduction in late projects; and
- Reductions in rework as a result of reduced root causes of errors.
It is reasonable to assume that similar gains can be achieved in the federal government. More importantly, full implementation of the Enhanced Framework will likely provide the required level of predictability in IT projects to avoid project cancellations and/or overruns within the federal government.
Ultimately, implementation of the Enhanced Framework should allow departments to leverage their IT investments to increase the efficiency of government programs and services.
