Not a Penny More— Budget-Constrained Planning
We don’t own the budget, but we are expected to develop it.
Our estimates become the budget for the project.
The budget is pre-set by the client—we just work to it.
We have a target budget, but the client always seems able to find additional money.
We only worry about capital expenditure and external resources; we don’t budget for internal resources.
We don’t use budgets!
These are a selection of remarks made to us when discussing planning with project managers. None is particularly healthy, displaying a lack of understanding of the purpose and role of a budget in a project by the project manager, the sponsor, and sometimes by both.
In this chapter, we examine why this might be, how to ...
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