Better Business Cases™ Foundation and Practitioner

What does the course cover?

Given the Business Case is the most important part of a Project, identifying if the project is worth starting, and when reviewed it can influence as to whether the project continues or indeed is stopped, then you would expect it to have a real importance. However, many projects run with an optimistic Business Case, often poorly written, and organisations are spending money that may well not give them the return they expected.

This Better Business Cases™ Foundation and Practitioner is based on The Five Case Model, the UK Government’s best practice approach to planning spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions.

This provides a step by step guide to developing a business case, by:

• Establishing a clear need for intervention – a case for change
• Setting clear objectives – what you want to achieve from the investment
• Considering a wide range of potential solutions – ensuring an optimal balance of benefits, cost and risk
• Putting the arrangements in place to successfully deliver the proposal.

Benefits for your organisation

• Reduce unnecessary spend and optimise public value.
• Reduce consultancy costs.
• Faster throughput and a clear, proportionate approval process.
• Improve quality of decision making.

Is the course right for me?

The Better Business Cases Foundation and Practitioner course is relevant to those responsible for developing and producing spending proposals or their assessment and approval; in particular:

• Accounting Officers – responsible for delivering public value
• Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Directors and Project Managers, responsible for successful delivery
• Directors of Finance, procurement and planning, responsible for the forward planning and prioritisation of spending proposals
• Members of approvals and management boards with responsibility for scrutinising or approving spending proposals.

Exam format

• 50 multiple choice questions / 40 minutes
• APMG Accreditation
• 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)
• Take your exam online with ProctorU, find out more on our exams page

Why study with Training Bytesize?

As experts in delivering project management training through a range of study styles, your success is key to our success. We understand how people learn, we know how to train people to pass exams, we employ the best trainers and specialise in small class sizes to help you get the best from your investment. So, if you’re looking to enhance your project management skills and ensure you pass first time, Training ByteSize is a name you can trust.

As a family run business, project and programme management training is in our blood, and so is innovation. Our founders have been part of the industry since the 1990’s, specifically founding Key Skills and developing the world’s first accredited e-learning course for PRINCE2.

Today we are proud to continue with world firsts; with second generation Victoria at the helm, she had led Training ByteSize to ensure were the first company to develop and deliver e-learning options for accredited courses including Business Analysis Foundation, ITIL4, and AgilePM. When we say we’re experts in project management training, we really do mean it.

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