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

ProjectManager.com

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. It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Controlling PMO Industry Application - A controlling PMO is common in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and finance. What is a Project Management Office?

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Risk Management Frameworks in IT: A Comparative Analysis

Wrike

COBIT Framework The COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) framework is a comprehensive governance and management framework that focuses on aligning IT with business objectives. It provides a set of control objectives, best practices, and management guidelines for effective risk management and IT governance.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Corrective Action/Preventative Action: Productivity in software development is simple to define and measure: One start is to use Earned Value Management, but we won't get there. The next is to define in the Product Roadmap - in units of money - the Value of the Feature to the product.

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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

They are projects in the sense of the term defined by PMI. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources. For us in the Finance and Business Operations side of writing software for money, it's a moot point.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Popularity by Industry: Finance – 87%. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Consistent application of defined processes – 44%. Finance – 93%. 116,100. . 113,000. . Information/. Technology. 107,200. . Construction/.

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