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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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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Note: This article was put together before the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition was published so the information in it is drawn from publicly available information about what is going to be in the book. The upper levels encompass all the information covered by the lower levels. Visual data and information.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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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. Therefore, tracking the project’s cost performance as expenses change over its life cycle is an essential part of project management. Project costs can vary.

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Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

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For a successful project, you need an overall picture of your work performance information (WPI). Performance reporting provides that information by putting performance measurement, quality assurance and accountability data in context. Key performance indicators (KPI). KPI measurement frequency.

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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. Planning involves breaking down the work into manageable tasks, estimating resource requirements, and creating schedules and budgets.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Plus, authors tend to have a different way of presenting information, so if you couldn’t grasp the basics from your training, you’ll get a different take on the topic from a deep dive into the topic from a book. It talks about measuring and monitoring velocity during an iteration too. Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

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