Project Management

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Business Case

PREMIUM deliverable

Mission-critical projects need to be well-justified, with clear goals that can be referenced throughout the life of the project. This business case template offers an excellent approach to goal-setting and a way to communicate those goals effectively.

Web Services Business Case

PREMIUM deliverable
by Luc K. Richard

This sample business case provides a proposal for the development of a Web service that directly supports the successful launch of an affiliate program.

Project Concept

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Finding sponsors to back your project is an art. Make a compelling case for the project to gain sponsor support when you are pitching your business case to executive management. Here is an example of a brief, direct project concept designed to lure sponsors into your camp.

Project Proposal

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You have a great idea for a proposal. Here's a way how to put it in writing to catch the attention of sponsors, potential stakeholders and your upper management.

How to Estimate Return on Investment (ROI)

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Sell your business case with a respectable return on investment. Here's how to calculate ROI. We've also thrown in an example so you can see how it all works.

Strategy-Focused Project Charter

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This template outlines a classic Project Charter with a focus on project definition and strategic ties. Risks and stakeholder needs are covered, but not in granular detail. It is appropriate for fairly low-risk projects where the goal is to get everyone on the same page up front.

Agile Idea Qualification and Project Initiation Webinar

by Sally Elatta
September 27, 2011 | 45:24 | Views: 746 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.28 / 5

This webinar will cover the very important, yet commonly rushed, initial phases of an Agile (or non Agile) Project. We will walk through Idea Qualification and Project Initiation where we take the business idea through several activities to justify the project value, define clear measures for completion, determine alternative solutions and evaluate if the project is really worth proceeding with or not.

Case Study: Implementing Project Management in a Low Maturity Organization

by Jeff Oltmann
October 17, 2013 | 60:32 | Views: 948 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.48 / 5

In this session, you’ll learn how FabCo-US how analyzed the situation, then adapted project management “best practices” to make them appropriate for an organization with low project management maturity and a non-project culture. You will learn how FabCo-US designed its project management system, what they learned from the implementation process, and current results on how much project success has improved.

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