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Questions tagged [business-case]

For questions relating to the development and management of project business cases.

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How can I get our business leadership engaged with our Agile team?

I continue to see Agile adoptions that focus on the R&D or Engineering team. There seems to be this acceptance that the core of Agile rests there. I'm absolutely not convinced. I think that if the business doesn't fully embrace the Agile…
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How to do a business case reboot?

Background I’ve been tasked with updating the business cases underlying several projects in a program that is significantly over-schedule and over-budget. I’m anticipating that this exercise will also force us to revisit things like our overall…
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How can I gather requirements from those who don't want to give time for interviewing?

Actually, I'm a fresh CS graduate, who wants to build a system for his dad's road transport business. However, the issue is, whenever I go to ask to him about: who are the people involved in his business? what's their routine work? or how their…
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Is the PM responsible of producing the Executive Summary?

My understanding is that this Summary, along with the majority of the Business Case, should be developed by the Executive role. I have been requested to produce an Executive Summary since I will manage the project but I lack the understanding of…
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How do you financially quantify the 'holding cost' of not releasing items until you have a big batch?

In Don Reinertsen's book - Principles of Product Development Flow - the tradeoff between release size (number of stories) and release cost (regression test cost and release cost) is described like this: In Ken Rubin's book - Essential Scrum - he…
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Recode or Recycle?

I am a developer for a non-IT company whose main service is marketing. There's not much technical people when I came on board, just one who is the project manager and all of their IT projects (websites and iOS/Android apps) were being outsourced. I…
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What 'economic drivers' should be part of our "software business case"?

So we need to perform a feasibility study of one of our initiatives and need to present it to the 'higher ups' - It needs to incorporate numbers (estimates) both from the perspective of tangibles and intangibles. I'm pretty good with the intangibles…
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How to decide to take a project when it's depending on a tool your team doesn't know?

It happened to me recently, I'm kinda newbie on PMing, so I ask this to an experienced community. A potential client contacted me through the guy (intermediary) who offered the job to me. But to define if I can do it, I need to do some pilot testing…
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How to order large amount of business requirements properly?

We continuously develop, operate and maintain a hardware-software system. The last year a load of complex business requirement (100-150) is accumulated but unfortunately not processed well. The current goal of our BA-s to prioritize somehow this…
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Value Adding VS Non Value Adding - Technique to identify.

For this question how would I go about identifying the non value adding? In my opinion non value adding would be activities with a wait and huge delay = 2,3,5,6,9 and 10 On a side note, would any of these be business value adding? Can someone…
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help using ROI/NPV to justify a project that allows you to sell more

We want to get a project justified, using ROI and/or NPV, but it seems to be difficult: We are a company that sells products on our internet site, and now we want to implement a system that give special offers of our products that can be scheduled…
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First step in analyzing the problem and coming up with the solution

I am working on a small case study of the restaurant who is suffering a loss in business of nearly about 70-80% due to COVID-19 situation so the business owner would like to revamp his whole business model to increase his sales and…
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What is the best way to link the Business Cases to the user stories in Scrum?

I am Product Owner of a Scrum Team which has to develop features for multiple business units. All these features are translated in user stories. Of course, some features are developed for multiple business units. To explain it very plainly: for…
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Is this a standard/typical/best practice way to display information on a business value - risk diagram?

The image below has a series of projects (letters) tracked in terms of value vs risk. Each project is shown as a pair of nested boxes, with the inner box broken into four quadrants. I have never encountered this and would like to know if anyone has…
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What is the best way to discover, prioritize, and iteratively deploy business intelligence solutions?

BACKGROUND: Have a client that has terabytes of transactional data and they would like to begin leveraging the data they have, but beyond the knowledge it's possible, and the belief that an analytic system would produce value, they do not appear to…
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