A business case is an input to which of the following processes?

Question

Options

• ACollect Requirements
• BDefine Scope
• CDevelop Project Charter
• DDevelop Project Management Plan

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  13% (3)
• C
  74% (17)
• D
  9% (2)

Explanation

A business case is an input to Develop Project Charter (C) because it provides the justification for the project - documenting the business need, cost-benefit analysis, and strategic alignment that the project sponsor uses to authorize the project's existence. The Project Charter is the first formal document created, and it can't be developed without understanding why the project should exist, which is exactly what the business case supplies.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Collect Requirements) and B (Define Scope) occur later in planning, after the project is already authorized - the business case is too high-level to be a direct input at that stage.
• D (Develop Project Management Plan) is even further downstream; by then, the "why" has already been settled and you're focused on the "how."

Memory tip: Think of the business case as the project's birth certificate rationale - it must exist before the charter (the actual birth certificate) can be issued. No justification = no authorization = no charter.

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