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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

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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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. 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

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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6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

Project Risk Coach

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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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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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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Why project work doesn’t get completed early…

Kiron Bondale

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?