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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

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Projects are planned and then life happens. Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. What Is a Performance Measurement Baseline? This is one tool project managers use to see where they are versus where they planned to be.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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The cost performance shows if the project is effectively staying on budget or not. The project budget is only our best estimate of what it will cost. Therefore, tracking the project’s cost performance as expenses change over its life cycle is an essential part of project management. Project costs can vary.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

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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. Key performance indicators (KPI). KPI measurement frequency.

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The 5 Phases of Project Management Process and Techniques

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Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Planning: In this process, project managers develop a comprehensive project plan that outlines the scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risks associated with the project.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. It talks about measuring and monitoring velocity during an iteration too. Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

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