Course Description:
This course explores the principles, processes, and practices involved in developing, evaluating, and defending information technology (IT) investment business cases.  The course stresses the value to the enterprise of the holistic evaluation of IT investment business cases as an element of enterprise transformation.  The course emphasizes the components of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130, Part 7, Section 53, Information Technology and E-Government, and Section 300, Planning, Budgeting, Acquisition, and Management of Capital Assets.  It explores best practices and strategies for building a successful federal IT business case, including application of architecture, business process reengineering, capital planning, analysis of alternatives, risk assessments, and information assurance investment.  The students use a business case evaluation method and other business case criteria to develop a hypothetical IT business case and to evaluate an IT business case.

Recommended Attendance:
This course is for leaders and managers who are responsible for developing, analyzing, or defending a business case for IT investments.

Prerequisites
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to critique a business case using a business case evaluation method and other business case criteria, and recommend changes to improve the defense of the business case to OMB and agency officials; and to create a hypothetical IT business case.