INF337 Ashford University Week 2 Problems with Cost Estimation Discussion
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Week 2 – Discussion 1
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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Problems with Cost Estimation
The text provides five specific areas or reasons that cost estimation seems to occur. Describe a project that you have been involved with where at least one of these factors occurred. How would you improve the cost estimation method with the knowledge you have gained in the reading this week? Respond to at least two of your classmates’
Week 2 – Discussion 2
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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Cost Baseline and Time Phased Budgets
The ability to plan an effective budget is critical to the understanding of planned and actual costs in a project. The only way to understand both schedule performance and the accuracy of the budget is to create a baseline. Use your text reading and the ProQuest article by Marcia Jedd to describe the linkage of a time phased approach to budgeting and the importance of a baseline for the project. How does this baseline enable measurement of project health? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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