Business Cases Aren't A Waste of Time

摘要

Business cases are valuable ways to describe and contrast potential project investments in order to make effective financial and business trade-offs. Asked if a new capability is possible, IT demands a business case before participating in discussions. Informal conversations and brainstorming are stymied by IT's refusal to have any substantive discussion on projects without a business case. Properly used, business cases provide important information and valuable benefits. Among other things, they do the following: 1. Facilitate fact-based discussions. 2. Enable enterprisewide trade-offs. 3. Demonstrate the commitment of an executive sponsor. 4. Force scope and capability agreement. 5. Form the basis for benefits tracking.