For the website addresses of the organizations mentioned in these exercises, go to “ Internet Exercises” at the book’s companion website at www. cengagebrain. com. It is suggested that you save this website in your “ Favorites” list for easy access in the future. 1. Search the Web for cost analysis tools. Provide a description of what you find. If possible, download a demo copy of a software package that provides some cost analysis tools. 2. Search the Web for “ Cost Forecasting” and discuss how what you find is similar to and/ or different from the methods described in the chapter. 3. For Exercises 3 through 5, visit the website of Project Smart. Click on the “ Cost Management” or “ Earned Value Management” link and explore the articles listed. Read an article and provide a one- page summary. 4. Click on the “ Methods & Tools” link, then explore the methods and tools presented. Review at least one method or tool. How would you use this method or tool in your projects? 5. Search the website for “ Cost Planning.” Describe what you find and how it relates to this chapter.

Cost Analysis tools
Reserve Analysis – This is used for creating contigency ,reserve and buffer for project incase some activities may go over the estimated budget
Analogous estimation- This is used to determine the costs of a current project by using expertise ie cost of past project is adjusted to the budget, time length and horizon of present project.
parametric estimation – This technique involves predicting costs based on parameters related to the scope of the project ,resource cost , time span .Precise parameters wil lead to accurate estimate.
Bottoms up estimating – This involves breaking down the workpackage into different activities and then determining the cost of every activity and then adding up each cost to the workpackage level.
Group decision making techniques – people of the team who have technical expertise will evaluate and finalise the estimates derived through by other techniques so delphi method is a part of group decision making estimates
vendor bid analysis – Various vendors submit bids and then these quotes are compared to arrive and estimate market cost.
Project managment software – Statistical tools like speadsheets and cost simulations models are used to quickly estimate costs.
5.Cost planning involves cost estimate and budget as they evolve over a period of time . Thus it greater superset
 
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