Cost workbench — Season 4 Rollout

Planned amounts rolled up: each budget category as its own work package, this project as the one control account every line rolls into — read about this technique.

Cost baseline (work packages plus a contingency reserve) versus the total project budget (baseline plus a management reserve) — read about this technique. Work packages' own cost, excluding any stored contingency line: 12,000.00 (a contingency line of 1,500.00 is already stored, for reference — this what-if always recomputes from the fields below).

Cumulative planned spend sampled off the approved plan's own accrual — the same rule the earned-value calculator's planned value uses.

Whether the S-curve's own sampled periods, above, would outrun a stated funding limit — read about this technique. Give one or more limits as period:amount, one period per line, using the dates the curve above prints.

Cost of financing a stated principal — simple or compounding — read about this technique.

Trailing average of actual spend per month — the steady-state figure an ongoing budget view reads, as opposed to a one-off snapshot.

Run rate over the last 3 months: 5,000.00 per month.

Conformance spend (prevention plus appraisal) against non-conformance spend (internal plus external failure) — read about this technique.

Other projects' actual spend as of the same as-of date — a real reference figure for the analogous estimate below, not a placeholder — read about this technique.

Four PMBOK Estimate Costs techniques, each a pure calculator returning its own plain-words basis.

Analogous estimating

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Parametric estimating

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Three-point estimating

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Bottom-up estimating

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Estimates filed for this project as of 2026-07-01 — EstimateScenario rows, target cost, each with the technique that produced it and its basis. Filing one is the one write this page allows; the budget itself still only changes through the change boundary below.

If a figure above should become the real budget, it still only changes one way: Raise a change request against process 7.3 — Submit a proposal with POST /change-requests with {"project_id": 1, "origin_process_id": "7.3"}.