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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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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

Have you ever run out of money for a project? You look at your budget, but you don't have the funds to respond to these risks. Let's explore management reserves for projects, who controls them, and how to estimate the reserves. Project Budget = Cost Baseline + Management Reserve Who Controls the Management Reserve?

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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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Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget. But what exactly is project performance? Project management software can help.

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

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That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system. A PMIS enables an organized and controlled flow of information, so nothing is siphoned off or misplaced. A project management information system (PMIS) is how information needed to run a project is organized. What Is PMIS?

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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. Actual Cost Actual cost (abbreviated as AC) is simply the total amount spent on the project so far. And it’s really easy to work out.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.)