The document provides information about cost management processes according to PMBOK 5. It includes definitions and explanations of processes for planning cost management, estimating costs, determining budgets, and controlling costs. Key aspects covered are cost estimation techniques, calculating estimates at completion, variance analysis using earned value management, and establishing cost baselines and performance measurement.
Earned Value Management involves more that just cost and schedule. Six Business Systems, including EVM, are the basis of credible program performance management.
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Project cost management ,cost estimation cost control and evm for large epc projects and is essential for knowing the cost parameters for all construction engineers.
Earned Value Management involves more that just cost and schedule. Six Business Systems, including EVM, are the basis of credible program performance management.
Here's a suggestion of how to "connect the dots."
Project cost management ,cost estimation cost control and evm for large epc projects and is essential for knowing the cost parameters for all construction engineers.
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project control using earned value analysis - Part 01 waleed hamdy
Project control using earned value analysis - Part 01
Mission of the projects control division
Why the earned value management?
Establishment of the Performance Measurement Baseline
EVM Analysis & Forecasting
Cost management is the process of planning and controlling the budget of a business. Cost management is a form of management accounting that allows a business to predict impending expenditures to help reduce the chance of going over budget.
The project management monitoring and controlling starts as soon as a project begins. Project monitoring and controlling processes are where the performance of the project is measured and action is taken based on an analysis of this data.
How to prepare recovery or revised schedule rev.2Abdelhay Ghanem
See my solution for one of the most hard issue which is facing most of planners while they are preparing recovery schedule.
I prepared, then uploaded a file to explain how to prepare a recovery baseline schedule (In English). With the new concluded equation (Ghanem equation) it is now easy to apply on Primavera.
Cost baselines and Cost budget are two terms from Project Cost Management, that could pose a challenge of understanding to many Project Managers.
https://www.mudassiriqbal.net/costbaseline-vs-budget/
For Other PM Concepts, you may visit https://www.mudassiriqbal.net/project-management-terms-and-concepts
project control using earned value analysis - Part 01 waleed hamdy
Project control using earned value analysis - Part 01
Mission of the projects control division
Why the earned value management?
Establishment of the Performance Measurement Baseline
EVM Analysis & Forecasting
Cost management is the process of planning and controlling the budget of a business. Cost management is a form of management accounting that allows a business to predict impending expenditures to help reduce the chance of going over budget.
The project management monitoring and controlling starts as soon as a project begins. Project monitoring and controlling processes are where the performance of the project is measured and action is taken based on an analysis of this data.
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A brief introduction on various concepts of Project Cost, covering various types of Project Costs, Processes to be followed for developing project budget, project budget components, contingency and management reserves, earned value management
This is PMBOK Guide Monitor and Control Process Group - Part Two. It includes six Knowledge Area - Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Communications Management, Project Procurement Management, Project Stakeholder Management, and Project Risk Management - with six processes - Control Schedule, Control Costs, Control Communications, Control Control Procurements, Control Stakeholder Engagement and Control Risks -.
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07.cost management updated
1. It is based on PMBOK 5. Please note that these are my personal notes and created using several books, online forums, already created notes by others. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop an email to
shraddha.pmp@gmail.com. There is no liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information.
Cost Management
7.1 Plan Cost Management: The process that establishes the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, managing, expending, and controlling
project costs.
# The Cost Management Processes and their associated tools and techniques are usually selected during the project life cycle definition, and are
documented in the Cost Management Plan. For example, the Cost Mgmt Plan can establish the following:
1. Level of Accuracy (Rounding of the data), Level of Precision
2. Units of Measurement (Staff Hours, Staff Days, Weeks, or Lump Sum),
3. Organizational Procedures Links (The WBS component used for the Project Cost Accounting is called the Control Account (CA). Each Control Account
is assigned a unique code or account number that links directly to the performing organization's Accounting System),
4. Control Thresholds (Thresholds are typically expressed as percentage deviations from the baseline plan),
5. Rules of Performance Measurement (EVM rules of performance measurement are set),
6. Reporting Formats (Formats and frequency of various cost reports are defined)
7. Process Descriptions (description of each of the three cost management processes are documented).
PLANNING
1. Project Management Plan 1. Expert Judgment 1. Cost Management Plan
2. Project Charter 2. Analogous Technique
3. Enterprise Environmental Factors 3. Meetings
4. Organizational Process Assets
7.2 Estimate Costs: The process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities. It is performed after
Create WBS, Develop Schedule and after identifying risks.
# Cost of quality: Cost that is incurred to achieve required quality
# Stranded/Sunk Costs: costs uncured that cannot be reversed irrespective to future events
# Value Engineering/ Analysis: Doing the same work for less. E.g. outsourcing
# Marginal analysis: Spend time on improvement if it improves revenues or productivity.
# Order of Magnitude Estimate: Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM): -25% to +75% (at Initiation) as the project moves, estimates should become more
accurate, Definitive Est: -5% to +10%
#TT6 – Reserve Analysis – Contingency Reserve – budget within cost baseline (known-unknown)
PLANNING
1. Cost Management Plan 1. Expert Judgment 1. Activity Cost Estimates
2. Human Resource Management Plan 2. Analogous Estimating 2. Basis of Estimates
3. Scope Baseline 3. Parametric Estimating 3. Project Document Updates
4. Project Schedule 4. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Risk Register 5. Three-Point Estimates
5. Enterprise Environmental Factors (commercial 6. Reserve Analysis
2. It is based on PMBOK 5. Please note that these are my personal notes and created using several books, online forums, already created notes by others. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop an email to
shraddha.pmp@gmail.com. There is no liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information.
database – resource cost rates)
6. Organizational Process Assets 7. Cost of Quality
8. Vendor Bid Analysis
9. Group decision Making Technique
10. Project Management Estimating Software
7.3 Determine Budget (Cost Performance Baseline): The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an
authorized cost baseline. Budget, is time-phased (WHAT costs will be incurred and WHEN they will be incurred). The Cost Baseline describes a detailed
budget that shows costs and timelines for each work package or activity. It is performed after Define Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate
Activity Durations, Develop Schedule and Estimate Costs.
# Funding Limit Reconciliation – the act of comparing and adjusting the funding limits and the estimated costs by refining the scope, rescheduling
PLANNING
1. Activity Cost Estimates 1. Cost Aggregation 1. Cost Baseline (S - curve)
2. Basis of Estimates 2. Reserve Analysis 2. Project Funding Requirements (Dotted Steps)
3. Scope Baseline 3. Expert Judgment (Expenditures, Liabilities, and Reserves)
4. Project Schedule 4. Historical Relationships 3. Project Document Updates
5. Resource Calendars 5. Funding Limit Reconciliation
6. Agreement
7. Risk Register
8. Organizational Process Assets
9. Cost Management Plan
3. It is based on PMBOK 5. Please note that these are my personal notes and created using several books, online forums, already created notes by others. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop an email to
shraddha.pmp@gmail.com. There is no liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information.
7.4 Control Costs: The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project cost and managing changes to the cost baseline.
-Cumulative CPI: The rate at which the project performance is meeting cost expectations from the beginning up to a point in time. Also used to forecast
project’s cost at completion. CPIC (CPI Cumulative) = EVC (EV Cumulative)/ ACC (AC Cumulative) = Which calculates the project's performance up to a
point in time.
-To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI): performance needed in order to achieve earned value targets (either financial or schedule). Two forms, TCPIC
and TCPIS.
# TCPI (Based on BAC) = Work Remaining i.e, (BAC-EV) / Remaining Funds i.e., (BAC-AC) (lower than 1 is good) (>1 means aggressive target)
# TCPI (Based on EAC) = Work Remaining i.e, (BAC-EV) / Remaining Funds i.e., (EAC-AC) (lower than 1 is good)
# The EVM method works well in conjunction with manual forecasts of the required EAC costs. The most common EAC forecasting approach is a
MANUAL, BOTTOM-UP SUMMATION by the PM and Project Team.
# Project Manager monitors EV, both incrementally to determine CURRENT STATUS and cumulatively to determine long-term PERFORMANCE TRENDS.
M&C
1. Project Management Plan 1. Earned Value Management (Variances and
Trends)
1. Work Performance Information
2. Project Funding Requirements 2. Forecasting (EAC and ETC) 2. Cost Forecasts
3. Work Performance Data 3. To-complete Performance Index (TCPI) 3. Change Requests
4. Organizational Process Assets 4. Performance Reviews 4. Project Management Plan Updates
5. Reserve Analysis 5. Organizational Process Assets Update
6. Project Management Software 6. Project Document Updates
4. It is based on PMBOK 5. Please note that these are my personal notes and created using several books, online forums, already created notes by others. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop an email to
shraddha.pmp@gmail.com. There is no liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information.
# Project Cost Baseline = Project Estimates + (Cost) Contingency Reserves; # Project Cost Budget = Project Cost Baseline + Management Reserves
# PV: Planned Value = BAC X planned % complete
# EV: Earned Value = BAC X actual % complete
# AC: Actual Cost
#CPI = EV/ AC #SPI = EV/PV
#CV = EV-AC #SV = EV-PV
#EAC = Estimate to Complete = Estimate what will be spent on whole project
#EAC = AC + Bottom up (ETC)
#EAC = BAC / CPI ---- Project has experienced to date can be expected to continue in future
#EAC = AC + ( BAC-EV) -- Future project performance will be improved though actual performance is unfavourable.
#EAC = AC + ((BAC-EV) / CPI X SPI) ---- performance considers both cost and schedule performance indices
#ETC = Estimate to Complete = Estimate cost of remaining project
#ETC = EAC – AC
#VAC = BAC – EAC
#TCPI = (BAC - EV) / (BAC – AC) – it is measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with remaining resources in order to meet specified
management goal
If the To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI) is less than one, you’re in a comfortable position.
If the To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI) is greater than one, you’ve to perform with better cost performance than the work that has been
completed.
And finally, if the TCPI is equal to one, then you have to continue with the same performance of the completed project work.
# Life Cycle Costing includes Acquisition, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal Costs.
# The Cost Management Processes and their associated tools and techniques are usually selected during the project life cycle definition, and are documented
in the Cost Management Plan. For example, the Cost Mgmt Plan can establish the following: 1. Level of Accuracy (Rounding of the data), 2. Units of
Measurement (Staff Hours, Staff Days, Weeks, or Lump Sum), 3. Organizational Procedures Links (The WBS component used for the Project Cost Accounting is
called the Control Account (CA). Each Control Account is assigned a unique code or account number that links directly to the performing organization's
Accounting System), 4. Control Thresholds (Thresholds are typically expressed as percentage deviations from the baseline plan), 5. Rules of Performance
Measurement (EVM rules of performance measurement are set), 5. Reporting Formats (Formats and frequency of various cost reports are defined), and 6.
Process Descriptions (description of each of the three cost management processes are documented).
# The Scope Statement provides the Product Description, Acceptance Criteria, Key Deliverables, Project Boundaries, Assumptions, and Constraints about the
Project.
5. It is based on PMBOK 5. Please note that these are my personal notes and created using several books, online forums, already created notes by others. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop an email to
shraddha.pmp@gmail.com. There is no liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information.
# Project Cost Control includes:
1) Influencing the factors that create changes to the authorized cost baseline,
2) Ensuring that all change requests are acted on in a timely manner,
3) Managing the actual changes when and as they occur,
4) Ensuring that cost expenditures do not exceed the authorized funding, by period and in total for the project,
5) Monitoring cost performance to isolate and understand variances from the approved cost baseline,
6) Monitoring work performance against funds expended,
7) Preventing unapproved changes from being included in the reported cost or resource usage
8) Informing appropriate stakeholders of all approved changes and associated cost, and
9) Acting to bring expected cost overruns within acceptable limits.
# Value analysis/engineering is a systematic approach to find less costly ways to complete the same work.
# The cost management plan controls how cost variances will be managed.
# Funding limit reconciliation most likely will affect the project schedule, since work will need to be moved to when funds will be available.
# A Definitive Estimate: The most expensive to create (A great deal of work is needed to fine tune a project so that you can get a definitive estimate).
# The Project Budget and Baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed.
# A Cost Management Plan contains a description of: The WBS level at which Earned Value will be calculated.
# The variable and direct costs are most affected by the size and scope of the project. Indirect costs are usually computed as a percentage of direct costs.
# The life cycle cost will provide the picture of the total cost of the project. It includes project costs and operations and maintenance costs.
# Training Costs: You are training the team on skills required for the project. The cost is directly related to the project and thus a direct cost.
# Fringe benefits(standard benefits like education cost etc) are included in overhead and are part of indirect costs.
# A full-time team member who completes her work sooner than planned could be forced to wait for the start of her next activity. Since she is full time, she
would have to be paid for time not working.