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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

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Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. A performance measurement baseline provides a window into the project that allows project managers to see roadblocks and resolve them before the project hits a dead end. Learn more.

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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

You look at your budget, but you don't have the funds to respond to these risks. The project manager adds the contingency reserve to the project budget, resulting in the cost baseline. The management reserve is the amount of the project budget reserved for unforeseen work that is within the scope of the project.

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget. But what exactly is project performance? Cost Cost is the filter by which you see the financial performance of a project.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. We create baselines throughout the project. They represent approved versions of whatever plan they relate to. Baselines will be created and updated as the project progresses and as major changes happen. Visual data and information.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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It can also help to make your budgeted resources more cost-effective. The cost performance shows if the project is effectively staying on budget or not. The project budget is only our best estimate of what it will cost. But that budget, once approved, rules your project’s costs. Project costs can vary.

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

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The section on the project health goes over budget, schedule, quality and scope. Being at the top of the report, stakeholders can glance at the RAG status and get a quick understanding of whether the projects are on track in terms of their budget and schedule. There’s even a risk management overview. What Does Red RAG Status Mean?

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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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Relatively new, the balance scorecard was introduced in 1992 by David Norton and Robert Kaplan, by taking existing metric performance measures and adapting them to include nonfinancial information. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.