Knowledge Areas Project Cost Management Plan Cost Management Estimate Costs Determine Budget Control Costs Everybody has heard of a project whose cost spiralled out of control. Even big megaprojects where the difference measures in the billions of US dollars are not immune to cost pressures. What is the official project management methodology for controlling project... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
Spiralling costs can be a project manager's worst nightmare. If there isn't adequate control over project costs they can start to take on a life of their own, where new cost items appear without any knowledge of how they got there or justification over why the project should pay for it. We've all heard about... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
Knowledge Areas Project Cost Management Plan Cost Management Estimate Costs Determine Budget Control Costs Once the individual tasks have been estimated, the Determine Budget process is used to roll them up into an overall project estimate, which is communicated to stakeholders. In addition, the cost baseline, which is the periodic funding requirements of the project... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer