Better Business Cases Practitioner

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..

Description

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.

Prerequisites

Delegates must have passed the Better Business Cases Foundation Exam prior to attending the Practitioner Course

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.

Overview 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.

PPM Better Business Cases Practitioner

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