Business Case

Environment artifact · ← Artifact catalog

What it is

A written justification for why the project is worth doing at all.

Why it matters

Without one, nobody can later check whether the project is still worth the money being spent.

What it looks like here

Not tracked: this earlier analysis happens before this system starts following the project.

Made by

No process in the catalog produces this artifact.

Used by

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.7 Close Project or Phase
• 12.1 Plan Procurement Management
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

This product does not track this artifact against a real project's data — the store begins at the project; earlier analysis is elsewhere.

Reached from a project's own process map, this page also shows what that project's own data says about this artifact.