Project Business Case Development

Maximise the impact of projects: choose the right project and realize the right benefits for your business A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career. Brief and visually led, Project Benefits Management gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success. Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development. Supported by downloadable on-line project benefits management tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice. Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools. Project benefits management is the business process which links the start of a project to the end. This book shows how to manage the process as a core part of a project. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a benefits management toolkit to address the entire benefits lifecycle: Benefits Concept Benefits Specification Benefits Realization Project Benefits Management focuses on maintaining a link between your project and the business. It asks: Why are we doing the project? Have we realized the benefits? It is the second of four titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource. Dr. Trish Melton is the Managing Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK based Project Management Consultancy. She has worked with organizations including AstraZeneca and GSK, and operates globally for clients in both manufacturing and service sectors. Peter Iles-Smith has 20 years in manufacturing automation projects in the oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries from both the vendor and user perspective. Jim Yates has over 30 years experience in project development and currently runs his own management consultancy, Fulcrum Management Ltd.Melton, Trish is the author of 'Project Business Case Development', published 2008 under ISBN 9780750684774 and ISBN 0750684771.