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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

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Projects are planned and then life happens. 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. 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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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. How Do You Estimate the Management Reserve? Let's dig a little deeper.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies. Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. identify items such as benefits and costs). process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.)

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

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A project management information system (PMIS) is how information needed to run a project is organized. It collects and uses project information through one or more software applications. What these programs do is help project managers to plan, execute and close their project.

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

Agile projects usually do not have set or fixed scope, making this method extremely adaptive to changes proposed by clients. . An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. Assumption. PEST Analysis.

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Introduction to Earned Value Formulas

MPUG

If not, use the number that was given to you at the start of the project which is your budget allocation for the whole project. What it tells you: How much the project will cost overall. The BAC is the same as the Planned Value for the whole project. the work is going more slowly than planned.

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