Scope
10
rooms to complete
Project Management Fundamentals
The 10-Room Painting Project
At the baseline labor rate, each room requires eight painter-hours. Adjust the work, crew, or costs and watch the project respond.
Original plan:10 rooms$4,500 budget10-day deadline80 painter-hours1 painter10-day schedule$20 labor/painter-hour$200 paint/room$100 tooling/painter
Scope10 rooms
Time10 days / 10-day deadline
Money$3,700 of $4,500
80total painter-hours
Scope
How much work are we agreeing to complete?
Time & Resources
More painters divide the same painter-hours and reduce elapsed time.
Meets deadline exactly · 1 painter assigned
Each room requires 8 painter-hours; each working day is 8 hours.
Calculated schedule
10 eight-hour working days.
Money
Labor, paint, and tooling combine into the total project cost.
$20/hour → 8 painter-hours per room.
Estimated duration
80 hours
10 working days · on deadline
Total project cost
$3,700
$1,600 labor + $2,000 paint + $100 tooling
$800 under budget
The current plan is under budget and on schedule.
One painter meets the 10-day deadline exactly. The $3,700 project total is $800 under the $4,500 budget.
Teaching assumption: at $20/hour a room requires 8 painter-hours; every additional $10/hour removes 1 painter-hour per room, down to 5 hours at $50/hour. Paint scales with rooms, and tooling is charged once per painter.