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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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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In project management, artifacts relate to documents: the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. What is an artifact?

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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. What Is Performance Reporting? This is used for better resource utilization.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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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. Therefore, tracking the project’s cost performance as expenses change over its life cycle is an essential part of project management. That gives us a cost performance index of one.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mostly, the term refers to the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. An artifact is something you create.

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

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Budget: Associate cost with individual tasks for more accurate budget estimation and generation. Control and Performance: Analyze and control cost and performance, updating existing plans as actual against planned data changes, provide what-if scenarios for the project manager.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Chapter 5 covers the agile project management model and then the rest of the book covers the process and project lifecycle in detail, with chapters on governance, scaling and performance measurement. It talks about measuring and monitoring velocity during an iteration too. Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

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