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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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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn).

PMI 195
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Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Scrum.org

Assessing the performance of the Scrum Team to which it relates. When used as a target rather than a measure. Instead, it refers to the need for forecasting, planning and sizing. As long as the sum of sizes for all item estimates is less than the Velocity, the Developers accept the work. Velocity is a useful measure.

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Creating a Schedule Baseline: A Step to Timely Project Delivery

Epicflow Blog

Schedule Baseline as a Performance Baseline Component . It’s a component of a performance measurement baseline that consists of scope, schedule, and cost baselines and is included into a project plan. This information can be used to improve project time estimates in the future. .

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. References below. . This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. And there are many other examples (see references).

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. 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. It can also refer to a comprehensive set of expenses or revenues.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.