Where Did the Margin Go? Project Margin Leakage Calculator
You close the project. The client is happy. The invoice goes out on time. Then the numbers come back, and the margin is thinner than you planned. Nobody can point to what went wrong. There was no crisis. Nothing slipped badly enough to notice. The project simply cost more to deliver than it was meant to. This happens on fixed-price projects, on retainers, and on client accounts. It happens to teams that already track their time. Most of the time it happens for one reason.