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Subject: IT Budgeting - Communication
Tutorial: Get Your IT Project Funded - 5 Steps to Improve the Odds
Step 2. Prepare a general outline organized around the key points
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Subject: IT Budgeting - Communication
Tutorial: Get Your IT Project Funded - 5 Steps to Improve the Odds
Writing an outline first will help you:
- logically organize the points you want to make
- determine the information you need to include
- avoid including unnecessary verbiage that might obscure the message
A justification outline, could include:
- Alignment With
Business Objective (or, Strategic Goal)
("This is what you want.")
- Cost Estimate
("This is what it will cost you to get it.")
- Approach
("It will do what it is supposed to do.")
- Key Deliverables
and Schedule
("This is what you will get and when.")
- Project Control
Plan
("This is how you know you can trust me to deliver the project result on time and within budget.")
Now you know: 1) what message to deliver to your audience, and 2) how you will structure it. If your organization has a pre-defined format, use it. You are likely to find that it requires most, if not all, of this information; albeit, in different terms or order of presentation.
Next we will discuss the contents of the message.
Get Your IT Project Funded - 5 Steps To Improve The Odds, Lesson 3 of 10
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