The cost before the project is still not counted?

Today Q Group has friends to mention this topic, the following is the original question:

" at present, the company's project to establish the system is only approved after the approval of the project management system to create this project, then the problem is that the project before the investment of manpower and workload is no way to collect and statistics." My personal advice is to create the project information on the project management system first, so that the pre-establishment input can also be collected and counted. But it is said to involve some problems in project management, so it is not accepted. Then about the project before the investment of manpower and workload, how to manage do you have any good advice? "

all the friends gave the wonderful advice! then I asked a few questions and learned more:

The proposal was rejected by the manager of the Research and Development Center, the immediate superior of the friend who made the proposal. The friend wanted to do the project management well, and the Research and Development center was reluctant to take responsibility.

First of all, I will start with the suggestion of this friend's point of view of my opinion, and then extend the topic "before the project cost is not counted" problem.

You pay attention to the things your boss is concerned about.

as a subordinate, you need to focus on what your boss is concerned about, and your immediate supervisor doesn't like what you do. Judging from the overall situation, this proposal is very good, in line with the overall interests of the company. but the so-called Emperor is not anxious eunuch urgent problem, some things you may not fit tube too much.

For the manager of the Research and Development center, does he need to pay attention to "the manpower and workload of the project before it is invested"?
If your leader feels that you do not need to take care of the project's manpower and workload before it is invested, you should not worry about it, you may break your head. Behind the "political reasons", you do not know, do not find yourself dead, accidentally tore up their own boss of the Taiwan, you will be sinful, ka Ka

You pay attention to the things your boss is concerned about.

I guess, your eldest brother bear the project cost pressure is very big, if will be in the pre-establishment also to calculate in, he is more cup with, you don't let him miserable added miserably.

And a lot of costs before the project, may not be he can control, but to calculate his account, who can bear
Many projects, is the truth is "be Project", the popular saying is: Above want you to do, you have to do
These do not want to do the project, the cost of the previous to calculate my account, you tell me how to die? So don't be a mess.

If you calculate the cost before the project, it is likely that the result is: The budget is unchanged, but the cost should be added to the cost before the project, so it is not a super tragedy

You have to calculate the pre-project costs, first of all, to rationalize the relationship from a larger level, which is not the scope of competence and responsibility

Work, especially to do the management of the job, not too theoretical, QA and PMO and other posts of friends, will look at the overall situation, the trend and for.

Boss are almost ghost kind of, you remind him to have the cost before the project, he will not add budget for you, do not kill themselves and the project team, of course, different company situation, their own discretion.

From this environment from the jump, we talk about "before the project cost or not calculate" problem.

The calculation must be calculated, the project to include this part of the cost, this part of the cost has been spent on the cost to calculate when the boss to the budget, to consider this part of the cost, this part of the expenditure will need to add the cost of the budget.

But the cost before the project, including all kinds of pre-research, technology pre-research, travel and so on, there are some projects in the early working costs have been spent, but there is no project, the cost of these work is actually to calculate. So how do you think about this at the corporate level? How do you allocate these costs to each project?

Here I would like to share a concept of "synthetic cost of labor", in fact, in many of my courses mentioned such a statement.

First of all, I will expand the scope of project costs, your company's executives, financial personnel, as well as those who often do not see the figure of the high-level, these people do not calculate the cost? There is the company's venue rental, equipment costs, communications, internet costs and so on do not calculate?

To calculate the cost of a considerable amount, this labor cost synthetic price = The company's annual total expenditure of the comprehensive/company year of all project work. All expenditures include, but are not limited to, the above-mentioned expenditures, and all project hours are calculated only for project hours, excluding non-project hours (such as administrative and financial personnel hours), hours of work for developers who do not work on projects, pre-project work hours, high-level hours, etc.

In this way we will divide all the expenses into the work of each direct production project, the unit price will be very large, the average salary of the average employee several times, this is the cost of our project team each work for a period of time.

Summing up the above, on the pre-project cost calculation is not a problem, my advice is:

It has to be counted! The company can work out a synthetic unit price per year as the "guideline" for estimating hours, and each project estimates the amount of work multiplied by this unit price.

The cost before the project is still not counted?