Intranet Rollout Project Budget
This is a practical guide to building a project budget for an intranet rollout project — the approved, time-phased cost plan for the project, adapted to the realities of launching a company intranet or digital workplace.
What a Project Budget is
A project budget is the approved, time-phased cost plan for the project. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Budget. On an intranet rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an Intranet Rollout project
Intranet Rollout projects live or die on launching a company intranet or digital workplace. A well-built project budget gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how intranet rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Cost categories
- Time-phased spend
- Contingency reserve
- Cost baseline
Intranet Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the project budget to the risks that most often derail intranet rollout projects:
- Content ownership
- Adoption
- Search and information architecture
Example
On a real intranet rollout project, the project budget would be shaped by launching a company intranet or digital workplace. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — content ownership, adoption, search and information architecture — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.