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New Business Case Mini Courses Begin March 5

Watermark Learning’s new series of Bulletproof Business Case Mini Courses begins on March 5, with Part 1, What to Include and Who to Involve. The new series of Mini Courses responds to the need that a clear and relevant business case is an essential ingredient to successful projects.

Through this new series of course segments, students will learn a repeatable process that starts with identifying business needs and ends with a bulletproof business case. This series will be offered only as online virtual classes. Students can attend each segment independently as stand-alone courses or attend each one as a continuing series. Here are the topics for each course segment and links to the course descriptions:

	Part 1:	Business Cases: What to Include and Who to Involve
	Part 2:	Define the Business Need: Understanding the Situation
	Part 3:	Root Cause Analysis
	Part 4:	Making Sound Recommendations
	Part 5:	Cost-Benefit Analysis
	Part 6:	Business Case Benefit Projections

Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA

Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, was the founder of and is now a consultant for Watermark Learning. He is a successful entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in product development, business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. As an internal entrepreneur, Rich led the development of several Watermark Learning online products as a business analyst and product owner. Rich is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management national conferences and IIBA® and PMI® chapters around the world. He has contributed as a lead author to the BA Body of Knowledge version 2.0 and 3.0 and was a lead author on PMI’s Business Analysis Practice Guide. He and his wife Elizabeth Larson have co-authored five books on business analysis.