They are a 10 year old company having difficulties understanding how to estimate future revenue and costs. You are assigned as the PM, you have a business analyst and technical resource assigned to your team. The BA is brand new to the company and the technical resource is currently part of 4 project teams. The project has high visibility and importance to the CEO. He wants to do periodic check-ins and treat this like an Agile project.
Timeline: 6 months
Key Stakeholders: CEO, controller, consulting lead
What I want: A forecasting and budget tool that outlines both income and costs for 6 months by month.
Income Inputs
· Existing business by month
· New business/sales by Month
Cost Inputs
· Number of resources, two types: senior and junior
· Resource hiring and attrition
· Training expense
· Meals and entertainment
General Requirements
· Dashboard
· Dynamic – can change an input and everything changes
· Tied to company metrics
· Allows us to understand who we hire, type, comp level, what can we afford, and impact to budget
· What if one month is off
· What if/scenario planning
· Integrated with time tracking and financial systems
· Accounts for historical trends and seasonality
Assignment: Using the work in a WBS,