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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 measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

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The overall measurement of project performance metrics will look at the objectives and requirements of scope, cost and schedule or the project management triangle. This is done during the execution phase and the monitoring and controlling phase of the project, two project management phases that overlap.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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It measures how much the project is ahead, behind or on schedule. As with all these performance measurements , if the project is behind schedule then resources can be reallocated to get it back on track. Track Costs With Real-Time Dashboards Project managers need to monitor project costs at any time.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. We create baselines throughout the project. They represent approved versions of whatever plan they relate to. Baselines will be created and updated as the project progresses and as major changes happen. Visual data and information.

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6 Tools and Techniques for Controlling Risks

Project Risk Coach

PMBOK 6th Edition The PMBOK 6th Edition changed the process name of "Control Risks" to "Monitor Risks." Monitor Risks is the process of monitoring the implementation of agreed-upon risk response plans, tracking identified risks, identifying and analyzing new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project."

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Operational Efficiency: A Quick Guide

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you want to always be measuring performance. That means monitoring and tracking as many project metrics as you can to get a full picture of how you’re doing and where you can do better. But any type of performance measurement is going to go a long way in helping you achieve operational efficiency.