Best Practices - Importance of Making a Good Business Case
These articles and templates are excellent resources for making a good business case:
Best Practices - Importance of Making a Good Business Case
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=564
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=538
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The vast majority of unsuccessful projects fail not because of poor project management, but because of poor decisions with respect to the choice of projects. A good business case helps to make right decisions and avoid horrible waste.
There is a fallacy that a business case is a thick tedious manuscript, written by professional consultants in an incomprehensible language. It’s printed on high-quality paper stock and placed onto the top shelf of an executive’s office to be used as a breeding ground for dust bunnies. This is not a business case; this is a disaster.
The sole role of a business case is that of a communication tool, composed in a language that the target audience understands and with enough detail to facilitate decision making on his or her part. There’s no magic formula when it comes to the size of a business case. The size is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the business case provides all the necessary information to make the job of the decision maker possible. Brevity is always a virtue. |
Business Case and PM Templates
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