Business Analysis
Building Better Business Cases
This workshop teaches the structure, financial discipline, and executive storytelling behind a credible business case. Participants build a practical case using cost, benefit, risk, options, and decision-framing techniques.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Practitioner
- From
- $1195.00
About this course
Course overview
Building Better Business Cases is a 2-day course for professionals who need practical, instructor-led business analysis training.
This workshop teaches the structure, financial discipline, and executive storytelling behind a credible business case. Participants build a practical case using cost, benefit, risk, options, and decision-framing techniques.
This course documents 16.0 hours of structured training. Learners receive a certificate of completion and documentation for self-reporting applicable PMI PDUs and IIBA professional development activity.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Translate problems and opportunities into executive-grade language.
- Apply a seven-section business case template tailored for the audience.
- Capture capex, opex, TCO, contingency, and confidence intervals.
- Convert qualitative wins to financial value.
- Apply NPV, IRR, ROI, payback, sensitivity, and scenarios.
- Build a defensible options matrix and recommend a path forward.
- Maintain a weighted risk register that survives executive scrutiny.
- Tell business stories that earn funding and handle tough questions.
Audience
Who it's for
- Business analysts and professionals performing business analysis work
- Project managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery leads who rely on clear requirements and stakeholder alignment
- Teams that need practical business analysis techniques they can apply immediately
- Organizations standardizing business analysis practices across predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 — Business Case Structure, Framing, Costs, and Benefits
- The seven-section business case template
- Common reasons business cases get rejected
- Problem and opportunity framing
- Quantifying the cost of inaction
- Capex, opex, total cost of ownership, and contingency
- Benefit categories and avoiding double-counting
Day 2 — Financial Modeling, Risk, Options, and Executive Presentation
- NPV, IRR, ROI, and payback
- Sensitivity, scenario, and discount-rate analysis
- Risk registers and weighted impact
- Comparing alternatives objectively
- Recommendation and decision framing
- Pitching the case to executive stakeholders
Public cohorts
Upcoming sessions
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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