• Task Identification & Work Breakdown Structure
• Task Identification and Work Breakdown


• Assigning Resources
• Assigning Resources
• Team Roles and Responsibilities List
• Responsibility Allocation Matrix


• Identifying Dependencies
• Identifying Dependencies


• Estimating Work & Costs
• Estimating Work and Costs
• Estimating Process and Methods
• Pete's Estimating Laws
• Project Budgets and Cost Tracking
• Tools and Equipment List


• Project Schedule & Critical Path
• Project Schedule and Critical Path
• Scheduling Checklist
• Milestone Table with Driver Tasks


• Make Trade-offs & Optimize
• Make Trade-offs and Optimize
• Project Flexibility Matrix
• Project Alternatives Tradeoff Table
• Product and Project Risk Assessment and Mitigation Tables
• Risk Management Plan


• Create Project Plan Document
• Create Project Plan Document
• Generic Project Plan Document
• Project Plan Example – Small Project
• IT Project Plan Document
• Development Project Plan
• Software Project Plan

Budget and Cost Tracking Formats

Summary: Spreadsheet formats for documenting the projected costs of a project and for high-level cost tracking, ranging from a simple, single-page format to detailed, task-level cost tracking. These spreadsheets aren't for the kind of detailed tracking required if you're billing by the hour, for instance.

This template will help you ...

• Determine the budget, cost-tracking level and format most appropriate for your project needs
• Communicate the major components of the project's cost and how they are distributed across the major work breakdown of the project
• Communicate the costs of developing the requested features and requirements, and to enable cost-scope-time tradeoffs
• Track costs at varying levels of detail to help spot variances or possible trouble spots in the project

What you get:

• Two sample budget formats, organized by WBS
• A high-level cost-tracking format, tracked by WBS
• Two detailed cost-tracking formats, tracked at the task or sub-system level