Episode ResourceBusiness SystemsFor decision-makers
The Second Variable
From the episode: Cloud cost forecasting assumes a price that moves
“Name the price you are assuming.”
Your plan models usage. It also contains a price, and that price is almost always sitting there as today's rate with nothing written next to it. This page is the row that names it.
- What it is: one block of five lines, added to a capacity plan you already have.
- Who fills it in: whoever owns the budget the plan defends — not only the person who built the growth curve. Filled in by the modeller it becomes a footnote; filled in with the budget holder present it becomes a decision.
- When: before the plan is signed off, and again at each review.
- Time: an afternoon, most of which is the conversation in line 4.
There are no figures on this page and that is deliberate. Any number written here would be inherited by someone whose estate I have never seen. The blanks are the work.