Course overview
Rigorous business case planning ensures that investment across the enterprise is well planned and
managed. Robust business cases reduce the risk of time and cost overruns and of projects not
achieving anticipated benefits. Better business cases strengthen the quality of strategic alignment,
project planning, financial estimates, and cost benefit and options analysis. The purpose of this
course is to enable enterprises to develop business cases with comprehensive cost benefit analysis
and more detailed project planning. As part of this course the following topics are discussed:
- Introduction to business case development
- What is a business case?
- Why produce a business case?
- Stages of business case development
- Business case development
- Understanding the enterprise need
- Strategic assessment
- Benefits management
- Options analysis
- Options identification
- Option elimination
- Benefit identification
- Cost identification
- Information gathering
- Cost and benefit analysis
- Supporting information
- Project plan
- Risk management plan
- Benefits realization plan
- Contingency plans
- Other supporting information
- The business case template
- Practical exercise
Prerequisites
There is no formal prerequisite to this course although most benefit will be gathered by individuals
that have worked in a project environment before.
Expected outcomes
At the end of this course the delegate will understand the need for business cases, the content of a
business case and how to perform the work necessary to compile a comprehensive and robust
business case.
Audience
This course is targeted at project managers, project staff, business analysts and other staff that
may logically develop business cases as part of their normal tasks.
Duration
1 day
