Project Cost Management Essentials

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What is project cost management, why is it important for your project’s success, and how to create a project budget? This article discusses the essential cost management processes and the importance of project cost management. As an integral part of … Read more

Schedule Performance Index and Cost Performance Index

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Earned Value Analysis (EVA) uses specific parameters that help you to measure the current performance of a project. You can determine the project’s cost and schedule over-runs at any stages with them. They evaluate how the project is performing by … Read more

Cost Estimation Methods and Tools in Project Management

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Estimate costs process in project management is the practice of estimation of the monetary resources required to complete tasks and project activities. This process uses almost the same tools used in the estimate activity duration process such as expert judgment, … Read more

To Complete Performance Index (TCPI) Examples

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There are many tools, techniques and formulas used to forecast the cost performance of a project. To Complete Performance Index (TCPI) is another strong forecasting tool of Earned Value Management (EVM). The PMI’s PMBOK Guide defines the to complete TCPI … Read more

Estimate at Completion (EAC) Examples

There are many forecasting tools and metrics used to calculate the future performance of a project. Schedule Variance, Cost Variance, Budget at Completion and Earned value are some of them. Likewise, other forecasting tools, Estimate at Completion (EAC) helps to … Read more

Cost Benefit Analysis in Project Management: Steps and bcr

Importance, Advantages and Calculation Steps of Cost Benefit Analysis

A cost benefit analysis in project management is supposed to be a neutral tool. Put the expected costs on one side, the expected benefits on the other, and let the numbers tell you whether an investment is worth making. The problem … Read more

Cost Benefit Analysis Example and Steps (CBA Example)

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A cost benefit analysis puts the expected costs of a decision next to the expected benefits and asks whether the second column is bigger than the first. Project approvals, capital investment, hiring, infrastructure — it shows up everywhere. This article works through … Read more

Direct Costs and Indirect Costs, Cost Classification

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Cost classification is one of those topics that seems obvious until you’re sitting in front of a budget and trying to decide whether the project manager’s time is direct or indirect. Or whether the site welfare facilities on a construction … Read more