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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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The 5 Phases of Project Management Process and Techniques

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Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. The Five Project Management Processes: 1. Initiating: This process involves defining the project and obtaining authorization to begin work.

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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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Project Management Process & Phases

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In simple terms, the Project Management process is the art of managing all components of a project from starting to closure using a structured scientific methodology. Let’s learn about the whole process while discussing 5 project management steps of a project life cycle. The processes in this phase are: . Initiating.

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Operational Efficiency: A Quick Guide

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But focusing only on money disregards the processes that contribute to profits. What is operational efficiency and how can you measure it to take advantage of its benefits? Redundant processes are eliminated as is any waste found in the processes. How to Measure Operational Efficiency. Refine Your Processes.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. This category relates to the various project management logs and registers we have as part of the daily management of the process. Logs and registers. You can grab the set I use here.

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