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Video: How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate
By Ben Aston

I’m Ben Aston, a digital project manager and founder of thedpm.com. I've been in the industry for more than 20 years working in the UK at London’s top digital agencies including Dare, Wunderman, Lowe and DDB. I’ve delivered everything from film to CMS', games to advertising and eCRM to eCommerce sites. I’ve been fortunate enough to work across a wide range of great clients; automotive brands including Land Rover, Volkswagen and Honda; Utility brands including BT, British Gas and Exxon, FMCG brands such as Unilever, and consumer electronics brands including Sony. Ben's a Certified Scrum Master, PRINCE2 Practitioner and productivity nut.

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  • This is great advice. The areas we struggle with displaying costs to the customer from a perception level are development operations, project management time / meetings, and quality assurance. When you factor in project management, Devops, QA, etc you can easily eat up 30 to 40 percent of the budget. What advice do you have on presenting those costs to a customer in a way that doesn't make them think they are not getting value. These are necessary costs and there is only so much you can do to reduce these costs without sacrificing quality but the perception of these costs is often of low value to the client who is not as technical.

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