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Project Cost Management

by Casey Ayers

Updated to align with the 6th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide, this course introduces project budgeting principles. After learning to effectively plan cost management, you'll look at how costs are estimated, budgets developed, and costs controlled.

What you'll learn

Updated to align with the 6th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide, this course, Project Cost Management, is the seventh course in Pluralsight’s series preparing you for the newest version of the PMP® exam. This course explores the Project Cost Management knowledge area, beginning with a discussion on how cost management can be effectively planned, before moving on to estimating project costs. Thereafter, development of project budgets and topics related to budget control, including earned value analysis, will be explored, helping ensure you are prepared for the PMP® exam. By the end of this course, you'll understand how to estimate your project's costs, prepare adequate contingency funding, and develop a budget that facilitates your project's success.

About the author

Casey is an entrepreneurial leader with experience managing projects, analyzing challenges, and designing solutions in healthcare, mobile, digital media, online learning, and more. His Pluralsight courses have helped nearly 1,000,000 professionals gain the skills they need to tackle new challenges and earn globally-recognized certifications, including PMP, CBAP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, CompTIA Project+, ICAgile, and more.

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