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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. What Is a Performance Measurement Baseline? This is one tool project managers use to see where they are versus where they planned to be.

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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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Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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The cost performance index in project management is part of the larger earned value management technique. Earned value management uses schedule, costs and scope to measure project performance. Using the cost performance index helps to keep track of project costs and increases the probability of them being completed on budget.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. The third category of project artifact relates to the different types of plans produced. Let’s look at each of those in more detail.

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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. Plans The third category of project artifact relates to the different types of plans produced. Let’s look at each of those in more detail.

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Schedule Performance Index (SPI): An Introduction

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The schedule performance index was created to eliminate the guesswork and give a specific, quantifiable answer to the question, as well as show where improvements need to be made for maximum efficiency. What Is the Schedule Performance Index? The SPI itself is a ratio of earned value to planned (or actual) value.