This Project Budget example is the Project Budget of the Quality of Life project — the example I follow in my book Project Management in 10 Steps, from the first page to the last. It is the document of Step 4 of the book. Open it to see the finished document on a real project, then write your own.

About the Quality of Life project

A personal project, run alongside a full-time job: you are the project manager and the customer. One objective — “improve my quality of life, sustainably” — with four key results (annual income, monthly balance, productivity at work, BMI), served by five deliverables: a promotion at your company, lower monthly spending, fewer unproductive hours, fewer incidents and a healthy life. The scope is known and stable, so the approach is predictive. The project runs from October 2017 to December 2018, and the documents show it as it stood on 15 December 2017.

What is in this Project Budget example?

Sections:

• Purpose of this document
• Basis of estimates
• Cost estimates for activities and resources
• Cost baseline
• Project funding requirements
• Project cash flow

How to use it

1. Read this Project Budget example beside Step 4 of the book: it shows what "done" looks like.
2. Or let the free Project Together course do the typing: it reads your project board and writes this same document, with your numbers in it.

The whole example, in one download

Every document of the Quality of Life example, the templates of the ten steps and the Horizon Transport corporate example are in the Together Kit of Project Management in 10 Steps, free for readers of the book. See the book.

Source: PMBOK Guide, Eighth Edition (Project Management Institute).

Cost Baseline Template — Free Download (PMBOK 8)

Blank template: Cost Baseline Template