We have consistently stressed that up-front planning results in big payoffs. For
those who have diligently worked through the earlier planning processes chapters,
you are nearly ready to launch your project. This chapter completes the final two
planning tasks that become the master plan for your project—resource and cost
scheduling. (See Figure 8.1.) This process uses the resource schedule to assign
time-phased costs that provide the project budget baseline. Given this time-phased
baseline, comparisons can be made with actual and planned schedule and costs.
This chapter first discusses the process for developing the project resource schedule.
This resource schedule will be used to assign the time-phased budgeted values
to create a project budget baseline.