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

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Relatively new, the balance scorecard was introduced in 1992 by David Norton and Robert Kaplan, by taking existing metric performance measures and adapting them to include nonfinancial information. The balanced scorecard brings everyone together for the strategic planning process.

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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These six metrics are also project constraints as they are areas of the project that can impact performance. Cost Cost is the filter by which you see the financial performance of a project. Once you have a budget, be sure to save that information as it’s critical to measuring cost.

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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. This category relates to the various project management logs and registers we have as part of the daily management of the process.

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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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How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

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ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. Business Process Perspective This is where you define how you’re going to achieve your financial and customer goals. Let’s explain better what that means.

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

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To generate a clear business case, organizations need to write business operations with sustainability in mind, which can be done by the following two steps: Document their business processes. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability. At the core of every business are business processes.