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Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition
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Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition

by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
13h 10m
English
Wiley
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Budgeting the Project

Having finished the planning for the technical aspects of the project, there is one more important element of planning to finish that will then result in the final go-ahead from top management to initiate the project. A budget must be developed in order to obtain the resources needed to accomplish the project's objectives. A budget is simply a plan for allocating organizational resources to the project activities. PMBOK covers the topic of budgeting in Chapter 7 on Cost.

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But the budget also serves another purpose: It ties the project to the organization's aims and objectives through organizational policy. For example, NASA's Mars Pathfinder-Rover mission embedded a new NASA policy—to achieve a set of limited exploration opportunities at extremely limited cost. In 1976, NASA's two Viking-Mars Lander missions cost $3 billion to develop. In 1997, however, the Pathfinder-Rover mission cost only $175 million to develop, a whopping 94 percent reduction. The difference was the change in organizational policy from a design-to-performance orientation to a design-to-cost orientation.

In Chapter 3, we described the project planning process as a set of steps that began with the overall project plan and then divided and subdivided the plan's elements into smaller and smaller ...

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