Business Case & Initiation

Turn an initial request into a justified, owned and bounded project.

• The project started because an executive said just do it. What should I establish first?Unclear project justification
• Our project has several goals but no agreed measure of success. How do I fix that?Unmeasurable objectives
• The sponsor wants a solution before we understand the problem. What do I do?Solution-first initiation
• We inherited a project with no charter. Can we continue?Missing project mandate
• Two departments are funding the same initiative. Who owns the project?Split sponsorship
• Our business case assumes savings that nobody can explain. Should we accept it?Unsupported benefit assumptions
• The project deadline was announced before feasibility work. How do I respond?Unvalidated deadline
• We cannot tell whether this is a project or routine operational work. How should we organize it?Unclear work classification
• A pilot succeeded, so management wants immediate rollout. What is missing?Pilot-to-scale assumption
• The project has no clear customer. Who should approve requirements?Undefined outcome ownership
• Should we buy software or build it ourselves?Unstructured option appraisal
• Our project depends on a funding approval that is not confirmed. Can work begin?Unfunded commitment risk
• The project name means different things to different people. How do we align it?Ambiguous initiative definition
• The business case is already outdated before kickoff. What should happen?Stale investment rationale
• We have a promising idea but almost no evidence. How can we start responsibly?High-uncertainty opportunity
• A mandatory project has no financial return. How do we justify it?Incomplete investment criteria
• The proposed project duplicates work already underway. What should we do?Duplicate initiative intake
• Nobody knows which assumptions the plan depends on. Where do we begin?Invisible planning assumptions
• A strategic project has no operational owner after delivery. Is that a problem now?Missing post-project ownership
• The sponsor says everything is equally important. How can we prioritize?Unresolved strategic trade-offs