Projektkalkyl
Projektkalkyl, in project management, is the process of estimating the total cost of a project. It combines direct costs (labor, materials, subcontractors) with indirect costs (overheads, administration), risk allowances, and lifecycle costs to produce a financial baseline. The primary purposes are to support decision making, enable budgeting, and form the basis for bids and procurement.
Cost components include direct costs, indirect costs, contingency, financing costs, taxes, and lifecycle costs such as
Methods used to estimate include bottom-up (detail by work package) and top-down (based on analogy or parametric
Process steps typically include defining project scope, creating a work breakdown structure, collecting cost data, calculating
Relation to broader practice: projektkalkyl is part of cost management and project controls. It is aligned