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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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Mastering Measurement in Scrum: Insights Beyond Metrics (From PM to PSM 21)

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The Measurement Performance Domain in traditional project management focuses on using data to assess performance and make informed decisions. Adaptation to Feedback: Your ability to adapt project direction based on measurement insights is crucial in Scrum, where inspection and adaptation form the core of every Sprint.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. Visual data and information.

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. 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.

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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.

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Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

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For a successful project, you need an overall picture of your work performance information (WPI). Performance reporting provides that information by putting performance measurement, quality assurance and accountability data in context. To do it, you gather data from specific work and analyze it.

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

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Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide projects with a lot of data. By color-coding the project data, the progress and performance of the project or portfolio are more intuitive and delivered with greater efficiency. But to know whether those KPIs are on target requires more than just a gut feeling.