Project Business Case

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction of Project Business Case

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Structure

Lecture 3: Why We Do Projects?

Lecture 4: Why an Organization Needs a Business Case?

Lecture 5: How Does a Business Case Work?

Lecture 6: What Does a Business Case Look Like?

Lecture 7: Business Case Contents: The Structure

Lecture 8: The Benefits Review Plan

Lecture 9: The Foundation for Project Success

Lecture 10: How to write a business case (I)

Lecture 11: How to write a business case (II)

Lecture 12: How to write a business case (III)

Lecture 13: How to write a business case (IV)

Lecture 14: The business case template

Lecture 15: How to write a Successful Business Case

Lecture 16: Roles and Responsibilities for the Project Business Case

Lecture 17: The project scope (I)

Lecture 18: The project scope (II)

Lecture 19: The project scope (III)

Lecture 20: The project scope (IV)

Lecture 21: The project scope (V)

Lecture 22: The project scope (VI)

Lecture 23: How to conduct a Feasibility Study

Lecture 24: How to create a project plan with MS Project

Chapter 2: Project Business Value

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Business Case forms

Lecture 3: Project Business Value

Lecture 4: Advantages of Agile in improving the business value

Lecture 5: Business value prioritization techniques

Lecture 6: Best practices for business value evaluation

Lecture 7: Cash Flow

Lecture 8: Capital and Operational Expenditures

Lecture 9: Net Present Value (NPV)

Lecture 10: How to measure the business value

Lecture 11: Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Lecture 12: Cost of Equity

Lecture 13: Project costs

Chapter 3: Internal Project Business Case

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: KPI (Financial Matrix)

Lecture 3: KPI Calculations

Lecture 4: Assumptions (from Finance)

Lecture 5: Current costs

Lecture 6: Project Costs

Lecture 7: Operational costs

Lecture 8: Intangible benefits

Lecture 9: Financial benefits (savings)

Lecture 10: Details of options

Lecture 11: Conclusions

Chapter 4: External/Customer Project Business Case

Lecture 1: Case study overview

Lecture 2: The Budget Plan

Lecture 3: Evaluate the Project Income

Lecture 4: Evaluate the Project Cost (I)

Lecture 5: Evaluate the Project Cost (II)

Lecture 6: Project Plan and resource allocation (I)

Lecture 7: Project Plan and resource allocation (II)

Lecture 8: Project Plan and resource allocation (III)

Lecture 9: Project Plan and resource allocation (IV)

Lecture 10: Evaluation of the costs of human resources (I)

Lecture 11: Evaluation of the costs of human resources (II)

Lecture 12: Evaluation of the costs of human resources (III)

Lecture 13: Verify the Cash Flow

Lecture 14: Graphical Rapresentation of the Cash Flow

Lecture 15: Project Monitoring and Control

Chapter 5: Project cost control and business case update

Lecture 1: Project Cost Planning

Lecture 2: Project cost control

Lecture 3: Project cost management

Lecture 4: What Is Project Forecasting?

Lecture 5: Earned Value

Lecture 6: Earned Value Management

Lecture 7: Forecasting the final cost and schedule results

Lecture 8: Project Budget

Lecture 9: Project cost control (example)

Lecture 10: Project Budget Update

Lecture 11: Example of earned Value Analysis

Lecture 12: Project Cost Control and Final Forecast

Lecture 13: Agile Project Cost Control with the Burndown Chart

Chapter 6: Risk assessment

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Risk Identification

Lecture 3: Risk Analysis

Lecture 4: Risk Planning

Lecture 5: Risk Monitoring

Lecture 6: Contingency plans

Lecture 7: Presentation of the typical risk report

Lecture 8: Risk assessment dashboard (I)

Lecture 9: Risk assessment dashboard (II)

Lecture 10: Risk assessment dashboard (III)

Lecture 11: Risk assessment dashboard (IV)

Lecture 12: Risk assessment dashboard (V)

Lecture 13: Risk assessment dashboard (VI)

Chapter 7: Additional Content – Project Management Templates

Lecture 1: Report template

Lecture 2: Decision Making Document Template

Lecture 3: Master Plans template

Lecture 4: Project Requirement template