Performance Measurement - Project Management Update

How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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)

Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2024

Focus on Actionable Metrics: Shift from traditional performance measurements to those that provide actionable insights, helping the team to make informed decisions quickly and adaptively. This encourages ongoing inspection not just by the team but also by stakeholders.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

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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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Download Word File Resource Resources are another performance measurement. In project performance, you’ll want to keep an eye on five key performance indicators (KPIs): utilization rate, billable vs. non-billable hours, schedule variance, scheduled vs. actual hours worked and revenue per resource.

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

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

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. It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations.

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Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

For 6 months, I planned and coordinated the induction, training, and performance measurement of all my team and new hires. Rachel Mata. When I was 23, I was hired as the supervisor of a medical care startup company in Caracas.

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Schedule Performance Index (SPI): An Introduction

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 23, 2021

The schedule performance index was created to eliminate the guesswork and give a specific, quantifiable answer to the question, as well as show where improvements need to be made for maximum efficiency. What Is the Schedule Performance Index? The SPI itself is a ratio of earned value to planned (or actual) value.

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6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

Project Risk Coach

JUNE 19, 2017

Technical performance measurement. The technical performance measurement is a measurement of the technical accomplishments. Watch the trends and respond before the situation gets out of hand. Imagine that you are working on a software development project and that the functional requirements have been developed.

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Why project work doesn’t get completed early…

Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Poorly thought out performance measures are one way: If staff are measured based on utilization , then completing work in less time means they are either going to be reprimanded or handed more work which they might not be able to complete by working a sustainable pace. How could the system affect work completion?

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Think top-down and bottom-up for agile transformations

Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Without changing existing portfolio intake practices and performance measures (e.g. There will be the need for funding investments such as training, coaching, tooling and potentially even staffing new positions.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

MARCH 2, 2021

An amount of the project budget or project schedule held outside of the performance measurement baseline for management control purposes, that is reserved for unforeseen work that is within scope of the project. Consequently, the project manager cannot access or adjust the management reserve without approval from the sponsor.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It measures how much the project is ahead, behind or on schedule. As with all these performance measurements , if the project is behind schedule then resources can be reallocated to get it back on track.

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Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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.

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AQAL - A framework for Agile Leaders

Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2025

This quadrant focuses on practices, technical expertise, performance measurement, uncovering skill gaps, new competencies along with observable behaviours or patterns which need to be addressed in order to be successful.

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What Is Corporate Governance & How Can it Impact My Project?

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2019

That includes action plans , internal controls, OKRs , performance measurements and corporate disclosures. Since that’s the larger picture, you can see how corporate governance is not merely a top-tier concern, but something that touches every part of an organization. Roles in Corporate Governance.

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

ProjectManager.com

MAY 14, 2024

To learn more about this essential tool to monitor and control the execution of a project across any number of diverse industries, follow the links below to some of the pieces written about status reports, project performance and more.

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6 Tips for Better Schedule Management

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Additionally, you can use this as a great tool to review the time it took to complete each task against critical path data, and see how your team members’ performances measure up. Identify Scheduling Assumptions and Constraints. This part is easy to do and is also extremely important.

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6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Technical performance measurement Imagine that you are working on a software development project and that the functional requirements have been developed. The technical performance measurement is a measurement of the technical accomplishments. Watch the trends and respond before the situation gets out of hand.

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ISO 27001 Control 5.23 Information Security for Use of Cloud Services

Alan Parker Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Defined service level objectives and qualitative performance measures. Establish Robust Cloud Service Agreements Cloud service agreements should encompass the following elements: Specific requirements for data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Backup, data recovery, and secure storage protocols.

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Operational Efficiency: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2022

But any type of performance measurement is going to go a long way in helping you achieve operational efficiency. That means monitoring and tracking as many project metrics as you can to get a full picture of how you’re doing and where you can do better. If you can do this automatically and in real time, the better.

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How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Helps Track Performance Another benefit of using a strategy map is that it includes key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure each objective and will allow your organization to track performance from multiple perspectives.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. Baselines We create baselines throughout the project. They represent approved versions of whatever plan they relate to.

Logistics

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The Quality Management Plan in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 14, 2022

Next, you’ll want to develop performance measure thresholds in order to make sure everyone is in agreement that the quality objectives have been met. Customers will have to agree with all the quality objectives and measurements of quality.

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Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance

Velociteach

JANUARY 9, 2025

Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to measure project portfolio performance consistently.

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Materials management, cost collect, performance measurement and, of course, reporting are all supported by PMIS. Once the project has been executed, the PMIS is collecting, organizing and storing data as it comes in from the project team, which can then be compared to the baseline projections.

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Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

A Technical Performance Measure is described through. Name – states the Technical Performance Measures. Gist – statement of intent of the Technical Performance Measure. Scale – the cardinal scale of the Technical Performance Measure.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course.

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10 Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 1, 2023

Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP) Total effective equipment performance measure utilization. Again, this is determined by performance multiplied by quality by availability. This helps you know how long equipment on your production line can operate at its peak.

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What are the tipping points for your agile transformation?

Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Hiring practices and performance measurement systems emphasize the “how” as much as the “what” What would you add to this list? Teams provide accurate and current updates to information radiators and stakeholders effectively pull information from those radiators.

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Vigilance is vital to avoid velocity vices!

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 16, 2020

Using velocity as a performance measurement could encourage the wrong kind of behaviors such as neglecting quality, working an unsustainable pace or ignoring tangible business value delivered. Calculating velocity at an individual team member level.

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Helping functional managers through an agile transformation

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

As Tony Robbins would say, “ Where focus goes, energy flows “ If we haven’t updated performance measures for functional managers and their staff, it will be much harder to encourage them to change. Metrics aren’t the sole driver of behavior but they do draw a lot of focus.

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Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Velocity is an excellent measure and a terrible target. Once a measure becomes a target (ie: for performance measurement), it loses the ability to provide meaningful, trustworthy, transparent data. It is common for Velocity to fluctuate between Sprints and equally common to work with an average when creating forecasts.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance

MPUG

MAY 21, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This one’s titled using MS Project to track and report on performance.

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Control partners should have skin in the game!

Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 6, 2019

Introduce performance measures and incentives for control staff which are tied to the impacts created by their work as opposed to just the completion of this work. After someone has spent a reasonable amount of time in a control role, they should be required to spend an equal amount of time in a delivery role.

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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Misaligned Metrics and Reporting The “Misaligned Metrics and Reporting” anti-patterns category refers to the inconsistencies, errors, and misalignments in metrics, performance measures, planning, and reporting when applying Scrum. Miscommunication, avoidance of open dialogue, and lack of candid communication lead to team dissonance.

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One and Done?

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Balance your incentive and performance measures. Move from project funding to product funding. Also, take advantage of iterative delivery by implementing iterative funding. Fund initiatives as you learn and validate. Create incentives for learning and discovery. Every keystroke is precious so I will end here.

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The Risk of Inaction (ROI)

Green Project Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Investopedia explains Return on investment (ROI) as a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency or profitability of an investment or compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. ROI tries to directly measure the amount of return on a particular investment, relative to the investment’s cost.

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5 Key Steps to Successful Project Management

Entry

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The project plan should contain performance measures and any process changes that need to take place and who and what will these changes impact. The project plan is the core of your project and needs to involve all of the stakeholders and gain their buy-in. The project plan should provide direction over the project’s lifespan.

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FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2022

How is performance measured [at] team and individual [levels]? How can this model be communicated to executives, etc., so they will support this and know what they want to deliver? . Amazing how people were switching. Was there some knowledge transfer between the team members? Pair programming, etc.? How Is James Shore?

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Are your project team members “quiet quitting”?

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

When we are considering operational work, quiet quitting is putting in the least effort to perform the standard responsibilities of one’s role such that required performance measurements are met. But what does this look like for team members working on projects?

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. Buy on Amazon. Agile Practice Guide. This is also the best agile book for the PMP ® exam.

PMI

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. Each of these, while well meaning, are missing the means to confirm their credibility.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Measures of Product Value is Exchange for Its Cost. Technical Performance Measures.

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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

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

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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

Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Schedule Performance Index (SPI): An Introduction

6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

Why project work doesn’t get completed early…

Think top-down and bottom-up for agile transformations

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

AQAL - A framework for Agile Leaders

What Is Corporate Governance & How Can it Impact My Project?

RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

6 Tips for Better Schedule Management

6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

ISO 27001 Control 5.23 Information Security for Use of Cloud Services

Operational Efficiency: A Quick Guide

How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

The Quality Management Plan in Project Management

Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance

A Complete Guide to PMIS

Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

10 Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

What are the tipping points for your agile transformation?

Vigilance is vital to avoid velocity vices!

Helping functional managers through an agile transformation

Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance

Control partners should have skin in the game!

Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

One and Done?

The Risk of Inaction (ROI)

5 Key Steps to Successful Project Management

FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore

Are your project team members “quiet quitting”?

Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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