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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. Without that knowledge, the project is running blindly, and anyone who’s tried this knows the dangers. What Is a Performance Measurement Baseline? Learn more.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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Projects cost money. But what’s harder to discern is if the project is worth the investment. The last thing stakeholders want is to discover the project isn’t financially effective. That’s where the cost performance index comes in. It can also help to make your budgeted resources more cost-effective.

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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Get your free Risk Management Plan Template Use this free Risk Management Plan Template for Word to manage your projects better. Download Word File Resource Resources are another performance measurement. It shows where the project is compared to various performance measurement baselines.

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

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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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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

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Consequently, the project manager cannot access or adjust the management reserve without approval from the sponsor. 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.

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

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PMIS is made to support all aspects of project management and the information they monitor or collect. 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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Closing A Project with MS Project

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For cost performance, you can use: Cost Overruns report, which shows Task Cost Variance and Resource Cost Variance with cost overrun and/or underrun graphically Earned Value related cost performance measures such as Cost Variance (CV) and Cost Performance Index (CPI), among others.

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