Due to the triple constraint which project managers face with regards to quality, time and scope, the way in which a PM deals with these constraints on top of all the other aspects of the project that need to be managed means a lot when judging a PM's skill on a project manager resume. Without Project Management there would be chaos in organisations which would induce stress, uncertainty and higher rates of failure, highlighting project management's essential nature to organisations.
The key feature of this activity is recognizing that identifying candidate projects is something that an organization should do on a regular basis, not just once each year. Further, when examining projects for approval, it is vital to also examine the resource capacities and capabilities available for assignment. It is futile to assign a major new project requiring extensive discovery of business requirements if no business analysts are available. Project Identification proceeds Project Initiation.
Project Identification is a repeatable process for documenting, validating, ranking and approving candidate projects within an organization.Due to the changing financial conditions within the total organization, it is necessary to establish a stable process for approving projects for initiation. This process will validate the business reason for each candidate project.
Update Business Case: When additional information is received on a Candidate Project, obtain the pending Business Case from the repository and revise the data. This Business Case should now be reconsidered by process 1.2.