Project Planning Glossary Definition

Term Project Planning
Definition

Project Planning is a project cost or earned-value concept used to estimate, budget, measure, or forecast project performance. It supports financial control by connecting planned work, completed work, actual spending, and expected completion outcomes.

Context & Usage

Project managers, sponsors, and project-controls staff use this concept in budget reviews, performance reporting, forecasting, and variance conversations.

Related concepts include Budget, Cost Baseline, Planned Value, Earned Value, Actual Cost and Cost Variance.

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