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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. 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

ProjectManager.com

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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A Complete Guide to PMIS

ProjectManager.com

Without a way of organizing all information a project is doomed to fail. How can some many data channels be organized so that they’re delivered to the right party and that person knows that they’re being notified? That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Burndown Chart A tool in Agile project management that tracks the work completed and the work remaining to help teams manage progress. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Project Performance Management.

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Introduction to Earned Value Formulas

MPUG

In this article, we’ll review some of the common terminology you’ll come across when working with project controls, especially from an earned value environment perspective. We will also provide the formulas you need to calculate your data and make informed decisions. Again, this data is available through existing financial reports.

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What is a PMIS and How Does it Work?

Wrike

Projects contain an abundance of information, documents, and data. Every project manager has the same challenge of finding the right tools and techniques to deal with all of this knowledge. A PMIS is a software program or application that organizes and controls the flow of project data and information.