The online workshop
The four sessions
This online event invites you to bring your own experiences and management challenges into play using a set of structured learning events, Zoom-mediated interactions, and personal reflections.
Each session is 90 minutes long with the opportunity between sessions to try out the lessons learned back in the workplace.
Session 1: Defining benefits – a measurement of value
- Creating an organisational lexicon for benefits
- Benefits, impacts, and products
- Establishing value for non-financial benefits
- How stakeholders impact the way we structure business cases
Exercise 1: Analysing a business case (A workout on your own or another’s business case)
Session 2: Constructing a benefits case
- The contents of a benefits case
- The six aspects of a project that define purpose and value
- He role of project impacts in developing commitment
- Assessing the benefit risks
Exercise 2: Developing a benefits case for your (or another’s) project
Session 3: Writing the business case
- Inheriting the benefits case
- Options and costing strategies
- The role of the key stakeholders
- Establishing the 9 fundamental logs for a project
Exercise 3: Sharing organisational issues in the presentation of business cases
Session 4: The role of the business case in decision-making…
- …in project selection
- …determining establishing a project portfolio
- …when culling projects
- …implementing change
Exercise 4: Sharing approaches to portfolio prioritisation management