Managing Agile will release its Business Case template soon. Be sure to keep a look out for it.
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution,” Albert Einstein once said. I’m sure he wasn’t talking about a business case at the time, but it’s equally apt to apply it to this essential product tool.
Many business cases I’ve read are framed in the solution domain, which should concern us because the business case may propose solving the wrong problem. As technology derives its value from the underlying business problem solved, solving the wrong problem will result in a sub-optimal ROI. And solving the wrong problem means the solution will fail because it’s implemented in the wrong context. [click to continue…]
