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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. 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 the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

Let's explore management reserves for projects, who controls them, and how to estimate the reserves. We handle the known/unknown risks by creating a contingency reserve using estimating techniques such as the Expected Monetary Value (EMV) Method. The project manager does not have control of the management reserve.

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

MPUG

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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Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

Herding Cats

Budget control is mandatory for any credible management of other peoples money. Call me when you find a customer who thinks it is cheaper to not plan and forecast the short, medium, and long term expected performance in exchange for a planned cost, delivered at the needed date to fulfill the business mission.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. We create baselines throughout the project. Visual data and information.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. Baselines We create baselines throughout the project.

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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

Scrum.org

Misaligned Metrics and Reporting The “Misaligned Metrics and Reporting” anti-patterns category refers to the inconsistencies, errors, and misalignments in metrics, performance measures, planning, and reporting when applying Scrum. Miscommunication, avoidance of open dialogue, and lack of candid communication lead to team dissonance.

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