Training Course Overview - Developing a Business Case

Developing a Business Case

Audience

  • Project Managers
  • Systems Analysis
  • MIS and IT Managers
  • IT Planners
  • Consultants
  • All staff who are given the responsibility of justifying investment in IT to support business objectives

Background

Information Technology (IT) consumes significant portions of most organisation's budgets.  Management need to be convinced of the business value associated with the introduction of new technology.  In these times of limited funds, management often have to choose which projects are undertaken first or which ones are undertaken at all.

IT staff need to be able to develop and present the business justification associated with implementing an IT project.  This justification only has meaning if technology is being deployed to yield real business outcomes, usually in concert with a wide range of associated activities within the business.  IT cannot be considered in isolation from these other activities and an appropriate Business Case must scope in all such activities.

Objectives

This course will provide IT staff with the skills to develop the business case that will justify the required investment in an IT project.

Business Realities

  • Setting the context for a Business Case
  • Business Realities in the New Millenium
  • IT Trends

    • What is an IT Project?

  • Business Projects vs IT Projects
  • The Role of IT today
  • Establishing the Project Sphere of Influence 

    • Scoping the Project

  • The Business Requirements
  • Objectives and Scope
  • Stakeholders Identification
  • Stakeholder Commitment

    • Evaluating the Opportunity

  • Requirements Definition
  • Constraints
  • Impact Assessment

    • Development of Alternatives

  • Project Strategy
  • Relationship with other Projects 

    • Benefits

  • Types of Benefits
  • Direct/Indirect
  • Primary/Secondary
  • Estimating Benefits
  • Benefit Achievement
  • IT Justification

    • Costs

  • Types of Costs
  • Establishing Standard Costs
  • Estimating Costs

    • Risk Assessment

  • Technical Risk
  • Organisational Risk
  • Financial Risk
  • Management Risk

    • Recommendations

  • Evaluation of Alternatives
  • Project Proposal

    • The Business Case as a Project

  • Business Case Phases
  • Timeframes
  • The Business Case Process

    • Selling to Management

  • Executive Presentation
  • Management Involvement

    • Duration

    2 days 9.00am – 4.30pm. 

    Training is organised and controlled by Intec Group who reserve the right to make any amendments to the program they may prove necessary.