The project sponsor owns the business justification for the change and is accountable for ensuring that the initiative delivers the intended business value. The sponsor champions the change, secures funding, provides strategic direction, resolves high-level issues, and remains focused on benefits realisation. Scheduling tasks, monitoring task progress, managing slippage, and controlling delivery against time and budget are mainly project management responsibilities. A project manager manages the delivery plan; the sponsor is concerned with whether the change produces the expected business benefits. The business case normally defines those benefits, and the sponsor is responsible for ensuring they are achieved or appropriately managed. Therefore, the sponsor’s responsibility is best represented by delivering the specific and agreed business benefits predicted in the business case.