1

Project budget and profitability

• Building a business case: the expected product or service, its risks, and its benefits.
• Justifying the project's cost: cost of the investment, calculating ROI.
• Reporting expenses: measuring costs the easy way and justifying them.
• Living with evolving forecasts: dealing with changes in needs.
• Dashboards and tracking changes.

2

Timeframes and decisions

• Reconciling realism and adherence to goals, building the project.
• Knowing how to present and defend your project.
• Gradual and adaptive planning.
• Gradually defining feasible, motivational goals, and measuring productivity.
• Tracking deadlines and decisions.

3

Leading a team towards the project's goals.

• Accommodating and motivating.
• Conflicts and discrepancies.
• Productivity, quality, time, and convergence.

4

Closing the project

• Steps.
• Acceptance in projects, and what is needed to compare the expected functions.
• Closing and ending the project.
• Associating actors with the close of the project.

5

Winning with the company

• The involvement of superiors.
• Sensing real needs: difficulty by users in expressing themselves, misunderstanding of the subject by the project.
• Communicating a vision within the company.
• Managing change: setting up permanent listening for foreseeable deployment difficulties.
• Helping the company learn the results of the project.