Develop proposals that accurately scope an initiative and secure management support and funding.
Change initiatives often fail at the first hurdle as the business case fails to convince senior management of the return on investment. Creating effective business cases and spending proposals is therefore critical to securing funding and management buy-in.
Better Business Cases training and certification is based on the ‘Five Case Model’ – the UK government’s best practice approach to developing spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions.
Accredited training – available globally via APMG-accredited providers – will help individuals to:
- Understand and apply the philosophy of the Five Case Model to business cases and other spending proposals
- Understand different types of business cases, their purpose, who is responsible for them and when they are required
- Understand the development lifecycle of a business case and the relationships between the five cases
- Develop effective business cases and spending proposals that appropriately scope the initiative and secure funding and management support.
Watch – How to build a better business case
You may want to watch this video where a panel of experts discuss how to build a better business case. Key questions are answered including what skills and competencies are most useful, how often should you revisit the business case and what not to do when building a business case.
Celebrating 10 years and 20,000 exams
We’re delighted to be celebrating a pair of major milestones for our Better Business Cases training and certification program. In just ten years since we launched the program, over 20,000 exams have now been completed.
Boosting business cases ability and confidence
We recently conducted a survey of Better Business Cases training and certification candidates and the results were overwhelmingly positive. Click here for the survey outcomes.
Foundation
Learn to work effectively with a team to develop a strong business case.
- Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Directors and other Directors with responsibility for the successful delivery of programmes and projects.
- Project Managers, Project Team members and specialist advisers tasked with delivering a business case for investment.
- Officers involved in the scrutiny and review of investment proposals.
- The philosophy and underlying rationale of the Five Case Model.
- The different types of business case, their purpose, who is responsible for them and when they are required in the development of a spending proposal.
- The development of the business case in relation to other recognized and recommended best practice for programme and project management.
- Multiple Choice
- 50 questions
- 25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) - 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed book
Practitioner
Become a business case professional able to apply the Five Case Model to a real project.
- Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Directors and other Directors with responsibility for the successful delivery of programmes and projects.
- Project Managers, Project Team members and specialist advisers tasked with delivering a business case for investment.
- Officers involved in the scrutiny and review of investment proposals.
- The development lifecycle of a business case and the relationships between the five cases.
- How to apply the steps in the business case development framework, in order to support the production of a business case, using the Five Case Model, for a given scenario.
- 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)
