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Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 7 · Project Types

What a project type governs

Lesson 66 of 198 · 2 min

The project type is the behavioural template. Every project is created from one and inherits its rules. What it controls. Whether costs are burdened, and by which schedule. Whether the project can capitalize costs into assets. Whether the project can be billed. Which expenditure type classes are permitted. Which classifications apply. And default rate and costing behaviour. THE TYPE IS STAMPED ON THE PROJECT AT CREATION. Changing it after costs exist would change how those costs should have been treated, retrospectively. It is not a supported change in any practical sense — failure case two is a project created from the wrong type, and the fix is recreating the project and moving the costs. The relationship to templates, because the two get confused. Project types define behaviour. Templates — Module 18 — package a type together with a plan structure, a resource breakdown structure and financial plan types. The type…

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In this module: Module 7 · Project Types

  1. 1What a project type governs
  2. 2Project type classes
  3. 3Designing the type listFree preview
  4. 4Creating a project type
  5. 5Burdening options
  6. 6Capitalization options
  7. 7Classifications
  8. 8Expenditure type class controls
  9. 9Billing and other options
  10. 10Proving the type works
  11. 11What breaks
  12. 12Lab: five behavioural patterns and a stakeholder to answer