Hi,
I have recently been tasked to carry out benefits analysis for a pilot implementation of an automated module in an existing legacy system.
Can someone point me to resources or provide suggestions for methodologies for creating a scheme to do this analysis? Pointers to document this study will be of great help too.
Here is what I have been thinking so far (not as scientific but want to be as objective as possible):
1. Understand as-is and to-be scenarios/processes.
2. Create metrics and means to derive them.
3. Understand constraints around those metrics and finalize assumptions.
4. Document-Present.
Thanks!
BigGuy,
Think with your business hat on. 1. Identify business stakeholders. 2. Identify benefits to the stakeholders if the project goes on. 3. Cost the benefit v project cost
Simplistic but it'll get you started.
Kimbo
Deriving costs is where I am stuck. I understand that putting an objective number to COSTs is going to be very difficult unless I talk to all the stakeholders and factor their efforts in the AS-IS scenario in.
Thanks for the direction.
Defining your benefits is a key thing too of course. Intangibles like 'reputation' are probably worth writing but impossible to cost. If you haven't heard of it, check out the SMART acronym on wikipedia
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