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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. 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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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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It can also help to make your budgeted resources more cost-effective. 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. But that budget, once approved, rules your project’s costs. Project costs can vary.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

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In project management, artifacts relate to documents: the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. What is an artifact? An artifact is something you create.

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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. Initiating: This process involves defining the project and obtaining authorization to begin work. Here are some commonly used project management techniques: 1.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

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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. An artifact is something you create. Baselines We create baselines throughout the project.

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The Quality Management Plan in Project Management

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If you deliver on time and under budget, but the quality doesn’t meet your stakeholders’ expectations, the project is not a success. A quality management plan is the first step to defining and codifying the steps necessary to achieve the quality expectations of the project. Quality is intentional and requires skillful execution.

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