Building the Baseline: Step 2 – Develop a cost estimate for each work package and distribute the costs across the time period based on the work plan

In this example, we estimate that task A will take 100 hours to complete and that tasks B and C will each take 200 hours to complete, for a total cost baseline (in labor hours) of 500 hours.

We will distribute the cost estimate for each work package evenly across two weeks, but that may not always be the case on your projects.