A program manager for a multi-year technology transformation finds that cost and schedule are tracking 5% ahead of plan. However, a key KPI for a recently deployed component-user adoption-is 20% below target, jeopardizing long-term benefits. The program sponsor, focused on the positive financial metrics, wants to accelerate the next phase. What is the program manager's most critical next step?
Initiate a root-cause analysis on the low user adoption, engaging business and project stakeholders to assess the impact on the benefits realization plan.
Re-allocate the budget surplus to the program's next phase to leverage the schedule gains as requested by the sponsor.
Authorize the closure of the component project since it met its technical scope and schedule, and document the adoption issue as a lesson learned.
Escalate the conflicting performance data to the steering committee and request their decision on whether to prioritize speed or user adoption.
The correct action is to prioritize the realization of program benefits, which are at risk due to low user adoption. Simply accelerating the program, closing the component project, or escalating without a recommended solution would be strategically flawed. A program manager's primary duty is to ensure the program delivers its intended benefits, which requires investigating and addressing significant deviations in performance that threaten those benefits, even if other metrics like cost and schedule appear positive.
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