Project Cost management is an important key factor which is involved in multi-parts of projects such as planning, budgeting, and controlling so that the project can be finished and completed within the approved budget. The article “Project Cost Management “ which is written by Joseph Phillips shows the cost and how it play role in any projects, then describing the real estimation and its characteristics of the good estimation “no secretes“ to stakeholders at all, then the author describes the most three important types of estimates should be used in any projects such as Ballpark, Budget, and Definitive estimates. After that the author detailed more on the idea of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). After that the author indicates the result of …show more content…
Moreover, the Definitive estimate is considered as the most accurate tool, but it takes more time, while the Budget estimates, it considered less accurate that definitive, but less time.
VI. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
The article was very clear; it uses simple way to present the ideas and the objective of the article, although I didn’t the way of linking the objective of the idea” Cost Management” to a “Song”, I think he can do it in a better way. Also, for non-business people, they can get the idea of controlling budgeting and estimates cost in their personal life as well.
However, in my opinion, I think the article is was more detailed which gives more idea about the things included for example in each tool of estimates techniques, he uses the examples a lot which make it easier to link it to the real practical work life; especially to the side of IT projects, where he concern about the costs related to the IT projects.
VII. PRACTICAL
Cost is the allotted budget required to complete the project. Cost includes material, resources, labor and any item within the project which has a cost associated with it. The three constraints are interdependent and a change to one can affect the one or both of the other constraints. If more requirements are added to the scope of the project, then it is likely for the amount of time and cost to increase as well.
Usually, budgeting is based on tangible cost of products purchased but during this project the main costing was based on man hours. Even the cost benefit analysis of the project was based on man hours involved in the current implementation versus what it would be with the new system in place. - Formative and Summative Assessment – Quality Assurance was a new concept that I learned is critical to the successful implementation of the project. I was not entirely satisfied with this part of the project because there is always scope for more quality control measures but the project was limited by time and cost. For example, peer reviews of code could have help bring up the quality of the coding practices of developers but there was no time to implement that in this project.
It had been published in 1999. This allows us to go more into depth of the changes between
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The document breaks down all of the budgeting needs and shows where the money will be allotted and distributed to improve the processes of the HRSA at each specific level. Major Programs and
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The two factors that demonstrate that the traditional system may produce estimates that are different than that of the unit cost are high overheads and indirect cost
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Solution : Introduction: A budget is an estimation of particular commodity, quantity etc. It can be prepared for any number of days but generally it is prepared wither for a year or quarter... A budget may or may not become the actual outcome.
II. Problems of the Case Study 1. Considering company’s budget is very limited, installation of the new technology might affect the financial position in the next year operation. 2.
Budgeting can be defined as a solid process to decide the estimate of revenue and expenditure for the specific time period. This definition of budget serves for all, country, city, state, business or personal matter. It is observed that, each successful company never moves forwards without deploying budget process (Al-Shawabikah, 2000). So, talking about Personnel Budgeting, it is one of the crucial aspects of any business to keep labor or personnel budgeting in the mind at the start and end of the year to maintain or increase productivity and profitability of the business.
TASK IV: PARTNERSHIP IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT Partnering is a project approach designed to allow the construction process to be performed within an atmosphere of mutual trust, commitment to shared goals, and open communication among the partnering members while working in harmony toward mutual goals in order to avoid claims and litigation and establish a win/win management approach. For the complex and large-scale Atlantis project, the contractually associated construction partnering between Laing O’Rourke and NORR along with various other members like Rockwell Group, WATG, EDSA, helped to create working relationship among all of the team members based on mutually agreeable plan of cooperation and teamwork to improve productivity. The main objectives of Atlantis project partnership included reducing project costs and schedules, eliminating change orders and claims, improving communication by developing
In terms of controlling, the management of Marks and Spencer has frequent reporting of expenditures with costs to provide a form of feedback. The reactions of managers to such type of data rely on the expectations or the formal budget or planned targets. The management believes in collecting and assigning cost data that is being shifted away from control. There is a recognition related to the repetitive exercise of planning and re-planning for creating a full time job for accountants. The assessment and evaluation of cost data in the aspects of launching new product by Marks and Spencer is about gaining insights and learning ways for achieving the goals of organisation in most effective manner.
In Chapter I. we defined a budget as a quantitative expression of a plan of action. Sometimes plans are informal, perhaps even unwritten, and informal plans sometimes work
Reflective Journal Student Name: Talita Silva Lima Programme: Higher Diploma in Science – Cloud Computing Month: July 1. Project Management In this section I will explain in detail my project management through a Gantt Chart and what I have done since my last journal until now, how my time management is going in order to delivery this project before the deadline and some of my achievements.