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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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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? Cost Cost is the filter by which you see the financial performance of a project.

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

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The easy-to-read color graphs and charts automatically update in real time to provide a status report whenever a manager wants one, without the long and complicated setup required by lightweight alternative tools. This reporting tool helps project managers and keeps stakeholders informed on the progress of the project.

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6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

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Let’s look at six tools and techniques recommended in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for controlling risks. Risk Control Tools and Techniques. Technical performance measurement. The technical performance measurement is a measurement of the technical accomplishments. Reserve analysis.

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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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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

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Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

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

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The balanced scorecard is also a means to measure and provide feedback to businesses and organizations. It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. It’s also a fine communication tool to share the strategy of a business or organization with all its employees.