Chapter 8
Project Cost
This chapter covers the following topics in the Cost Management knowledge area:
Plan Cost Management: Examine the common processes, tools, and artifacts needed to estimate costs on a project and determine the budget for the project.
Estimate Costs: Review the process and tools for estimating costs of activities, work packages, and other components of the project.
Determine Budget: Review the process of aggregating costs to ascertain the time-phased budget for the project.
Control Costs: Briefly examine the process of tracking cost across the project. This topic is discussed in more detail in Chapter 14, “Project Measurement.”
In this chapter, we discuss in detail the cost management approach of projects as needed for ...
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