Over the coming weeks we will be posting a number of digests in the hopes of fostering some healthy discussion on this topic and others within our service domains.
This first ‘brief’ article is specifically around Project Change and the major elements, greenCore believes, are essential to effectively understand and validate why resources (people, funding and goods) should be consumed before commencing the delivery/execution phase of a project.
greenCore is passionate about supporting our customers through deliberate, informed and planned IT project change. We believe that the “Investment Logic” layer contains the core elements that initiate, define and justify IT Project Change. We are of the opinion that the starting/initiating phase of a project is the most critical, as this stage identifies the reason why you are about to expend resources, what the outcome should be and how that outcome aligns to an organisational, department or business unit goal or vision.
Whereas, the Delivery layer (although vitally important to achieve the desired outcome) contains the components necessary for producing the expected business benefit or product.
At greenCore we use this model as a method of confirming business expectations as well as rationales for originating change and the constraints around how and what the solution should adhere to.
Our next post will look at leveraging the Investment Logic Layer in more detail when gathering business and technical requirements during Project Initiation.
