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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

ProjectManager.com

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

You might also here artifacts referred to as templates, documents, outputs or deliverables, but in all cases they relate to the work of managing the project, not the thing you are creating as the output of the project. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline.

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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

Why Reserves are Needed During the course of a project, you and your project team identify risks which are referred to as known/unknown risks. "If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy's Law. Click to Tweet. These risks are known – that is, they've been identified. Management Reserve. PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition.

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

ProjectManager.com

We’ve been referring to project managers and stakeholders as the main users of RAG statuses, but there are many people involved in the project who will want to use this technique. Get your free Status Report Template Use this free Status Report Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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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. Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. You create them when they are needed and refer to and update them as necessary. What is an artifact?

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Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Scrum.org

Assessing the performance of the Scrum Team to which it relates. When used as a target rather than a measure. Instead, it refers to the need for forecasting, planning and sizing. Velocity is an excellent measure and a terrible target. The Benefits. The Scrum Guide does not mention Velocity. Avoid this at all costs.

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

Scrum.org

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.

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