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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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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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A Complete Guide to PMIS

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Without a way of organizing all information a project is doomed to fail. How can some many data channels be organized so that they’re delivered to the right party and that person knows that they’re being notified? That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Burndown Chart A tool in Agile project management that tracks the work completed and the work remaining to help teams manage progress. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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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. We will also provide the formulas you need to calculate your data and make informed decisions. Again, this data is available through existing financial reports.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective

Herding Cats

In a recent Blog post titled Precision it is suggested Precision (or the implication thereof) is perhaps the root problem of most, if not all dysfunction related to estimation. . Yes, projects have uncertainty. Projects are no exception. Yes, there is data showing large variances of actuals versus estimated values.

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The Problems with Schedules

Herding Cats

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. All that line says is this was the baseline estimate at Completion for the project work.