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Ensuring projects always get the green light
The APMG-accredited Better Business Cases practitioner combined course is based on the ‘Five Case Model’ – the UK government’s best practice approach to developing spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions – a comprehensive strategic and systematic approach for developing a business case.
Throughout the course you will learn how to create proposals that accurately scope requirements, support the initiation of successful change activities and secure management support and funding for your organisational change initiatives..
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Who is this course for
Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Directors and other Directors with responsibility for the successful delivery of programmes and projects.
Project Managers, Project Team members and specialist advisers tasked with delivering a business case for investment.
Benefits for you as an individual
Attending this course will enable you to become a certified business case professional able to apply the Five Case Model to a real project and will equip you with the tools and techniques you will need to become a subject matter expert in building better business cases with the full range of knowledge and skills at your fingertips.
You will learn to work effectively with a team and to develop a strong business case for your projects and change initiatives and to effectively tailor the guidance to align with your organisational needs, increasing the chances of delivering a successful project.
Benefits for your organisation
Change initiatives often fail at the first hurdle as the business case fails to convince senior management of the return on investment. Creating effective business cases and spending proposals is therefore critical to the development of a comprehensive project implementation plan and securing funding and management buy-in.
Prerequisites
Delegates must have passed the Better Business Cases Foundation Exam prior to attending the Practitioner CourseOverview of the Five Case Model
- Key Components of a Business Case
- Key Stages in the development of a spending proposal
- Understanding of terms and concepts
Developing the Strategic Case
- Purpose & Content of a Strategic Case
- Defining risks
- Defining Benefits
- SMART Objectives
- The Case for Change
Developing the Economic Case
- Critical Success Factors
- Long Listed Options
- Short Listed Options
- Benefits Appraisals
- Risk Assessment
- Sensitivity Analysis
Developing the Commercial Case
- Procurement strategy Route
- Service Requirements & Outputs
- Risk Assignment
- Charging Mechanism
- Personnel Implications
Developing the Financial Case
- Capital and Revenue Requirements
- Impact on Balance Sheet
- Net Effect on Prices
- Affordability & funding
Developing the Management Case
- Understand Project management Controls
- Understand Change management arrangements
- Understand benefits realisation arrangements
- Post implementation & Evaluation arrangements
Additional Exam Information
- Objective testing
- 4 questions per paper, with 20 marks available per question
- 40 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2 ½ hours duration
- Open book exam (International Guide to developing the Project Business Case and International Guide to developing the Programme Business Case only)
Pre-Coursework
Please note, there may be a small amount of evening work to complete such as further reading or working though sample exam papers.Book Your Course
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