Cost Management Plan

What it is

Notes on how the budget will be planned, tracked and controlled.

It sets the rules for what counts as overspending before money is on the line.

Written as a short narrative attached to the project.

This product tracks this artifact against a real project's data.

Setting the budget

How costs are estimatedSay what the figures are built from.

How the budget is put togetherSay how estimates roll up into one.

Watching spend

What gap forces a responseGive the size of miss.

Filled here from: the written plan stored on this project

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Reached from a project's own process map, this page also shows what that project's own data says about this artifact.