Project Governance

Business case development (including procurement strategy)

This phase of the lifecycle is sometimes split into the separate phases of

business case development and procurement strategy. However, the

business case cannot be developed in isolation of the procurement

strategy since the chosen procurement model is likely to have an impact

on basic parameters of the business case such as risk allocation and

schedule. Different procurement models encourage different risk alloca-

tions and this in turn has an impact on the costing of the individual

options. For this reason the two activities occur broadly concurrently.

The primary objectives of the business ...