Business Case « A PM's workshop

Risks of managing the “Business Change”

By Eugenio, on January 28th, 2010

Delivering the correct solution to the business is the end of the project. However, it introduces a new order of obligations. Thereby, there is a strategic necessity to bridge and synchronize the program / project activities and the business operations. This has to be started at the project’s initiation with a better fitted Business Case.

A [...]

Risks and strategy

By Eugenio, on January 26th, 2010

The physical feasibility (e.g. technology, capacity or capability) is the primary source of risks. The management’s wrong judgment of the former is the second one.
From this premise, the Business Case should univocally establish the “owner” of the solution. Therefore, this declaration cannot be left the orphan .This means that level of the producing organization’ mastery of the technology / production’s process / capacity has to be indicated as one of the key elements on which the strategy has been [...]

Fractals – Presenting risks in Business Case

By Eugenio, on July 20th, 2009

Like squirrels, reserves are essential

Risks (negative and Opportunities as positive) are occurrences of an event that would modify the project’s outcome.

Only when the hypothetical course has been set, it is reasonable to evaluate the possible events that will have an impact on the output.

Which are the risks’ sources?

Each “Option” has different risks. [...]

Fractals for Business Case – presenting “Options”

By Eugenio, on July 17th, 2009

Once the “Reasons” are clearly stated, forming the first version of the baseline, the Business Case needs some solutions for starting the operations with clear guidance.

The “Options” should be in the number of three; these are the main properties:

Every option shall cover (in different ways) the needs forming the “Reasons”
While the core is technical [...]

Fractals – Designing a Business Case

By Eugenio, on July 16th, 2009

Sustaining and pressuring forces

I am proposing the analogy between project’s documents and fractals, because geometrical rules could help in the process of introducing common methods of measurement. It, therefore, makes easier to set up and manage a PMO and then a program.
Hard facts, emotions, little dirtier secrets (previous mistakes), interpretation of marketing, analysis, new [...]

Fractals as visual patterns for building sound projects

By Eugenio, on July 15th, 2009

A natural application of fractals

There are some useful concepts that can sustain the adoption of fractal as “thinking strategy”.

A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.

This could be roughly translated with the following definition:
The same structure can be scaled into the smallest dimension, maintaining [...]

Gantt -2 (Business Case)

By Eugenio, on July 1st, 2009

The project has to answer to a (reasonably) well defined need. This answer, to be useful, has to be centered in only one logic that will be transformed into a product.

Complex products are composed by different parts kept together by an unique logic. If, sometimes, it is possible to release prototypes with some “visible” features; [...]