Better Business Cases Combined (Foundation & Practitioner)

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

The APMG-accredited Better Business Cases foundation and practitioner combined course is based on the ‘Five Case Model’ – the UK government’s best practice approach to developing spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions – a comprehensive strategic and systematic approach for developing a business case.

Throughout the course you will learn how to create proposals that accurately scope requirements, support the initiation of successful change activities and secure management support and funding for your organisational change initiatives.

Who is this course for
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.

Benefits for you as an individual
Attending this course will enable you to become a certified business case professional able to apply the Five Case Model to a real project and will equip you with the tools and techniques you will need to become a subject matter expert in building better business cases with the full range of knowledge and skills at your fingertips.

You will learn to work effectively with a team and to develop a strong business case for your projects and change initiatives and to effectively tailor the guidance to align with your organisational needs, increasing the chances of delivering a successful project.

Benefits for your organisation
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 the development of a comprehensive project implementation plan and securing funding and management buy-in.

Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for the foundation course, however a basic understanding of projects and business change would be beneficial. In order to take the practitioner exam you will need to have passed the foundation exam.

Additional Exam Information
Foundation

Multiple Choice

50 questions

25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) - 50%

40 minutes duration

Closed book

Practitioner

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)

Pre-Coursework
Please note, there may be a small amount of evening work to complete such as further reading or working though sample exam papers.