Show Me the Money - Getting Your Project Funded

Getting your project approved and funded is never easy and it even more difficult when you don't know how to best present your case.  We in IT seem to think that if we throw in enough system architecture diagrams and festoon the proposal with acronyms the merits should be obvious.  The results say otherwise.  In regard to the use of acronyms refer to Schaffner's Rule of Communications to Someone in a Different Profession. However, this alone isn't enough.

For a good outline of how to prepare proposals for capital spending check out Kent Blumberg's blog post on "Making sensible capital investment".  If you follow these guidelines you just might find you have a higher success rate in getting project funding!