Chapter 7. Cost management: Watching the bottom line
Every project boils down to money. If you had a bigger budget, you could probably get more people to do your project more quickly and deliver more. That’s why no project plan is complete until you come up with a budget. But no matter whether your project is big or small, and no matter how many resources and activities are in it, the process for figuring out the bottom line is always the same!
Time to expand Head First Kitchen
The Head First Kitchen is doing so well that their owners are going to go ahead and open a second location near you! They found a great location, and now all they need to do is renovate it.
The renovation goes overboard
When they start planning out what to buy, they want really expensive furniture and fixtures for the dining room—antique tables, luxury flooring, even a historic bar shipped in from another city. This is going to cost a lot of money…
Kitchen conversation
Tamika: That imported reclaimed wood flooring is amazing—and eco-friendly! I can just imagine how it will look.
Sue: And I ...
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