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APMP Section 5a
Term | Definition |
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Information management | The collection, storage, dissemination, archiving and destruction of information. |
Business case | This document provides justification for undertaking a project, in terms of evaluating the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options and the rationale for the preferred solution. |
Assumptions | Statements that will be taken for granted as fact and upon which the project business case will be justified. |
Business risk assessment | The assessment of risk to business objectives rather than risk to achieving project, programme or portfolio objectives. |
Do nothing' option | The result or consequence of not proceeding with the project or programme. |
Objectives | Predetermined results towards which effort is directed. |
Strategic management | The identification, selection and implementation of an organisation’s long term goals and objectives. |
Benefit | The quantifiable and measurable improvement resulting from completion of deliverables that is perceived as positive by a stakeholder. |
Benefits management | The identification, definition, planning, tracking and realisation of business benefits. |
Cost-benefit analysis | An analysis of the relationship between the costs of undertaking an activity or project, initial and recurrent, and the benefits likely to arise from the changed situation, initially and recurrently. |
Benefits realisation | The practice of ensuring that benefits are derived from outputs and outcomes. |
Disbenefit | A consequence of change perceived as negative by one or more stakeholders. |
Funding | The means by which the capital required to undertake a project, programme or portfolio is secured and then made available as required. |
Investment appraisal | A collection of techniques used to identify the attractiveness of an investment. |
Stakeholder | The organisations or people who have an interest or role in the project or are impacted by the project. |
Power and interest matrix | Used to help analyse the position of stakeholders and to support the identification of appropriate engagement strategies. |
Stakeholder management | The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to engage with stakeholders. |
Discounted cash flow (DCF) | The concept of relating future cash inflows and outflows over the life of a project to a common base value. |
Internal rate of return (IRR) | A discount rate at which the net present value of a future cash flow is zero. |
Net present value (NPV) | The aggregate of future net cash flows discounted back to a common base date, usually the present. |
Payback | The time it takes for net cash inflow to equal the cash investment. |
Residual value | The written-down value of a capital item at the end of the period, used in the business case to assess the financial integrity of the programme or project. |