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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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Using the cost performance index helps to keep track of project costs and increases the probability of them being completed on budget. Project management software is another tool in the work of managing project costs. Now you can track cost variance in real time across our software.

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Operational Efficiency: A Quick Guide

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What is operational efficiency and how can you measure it to take advantage of its benefits? Let’s start with the definition and explore how to improve operational efficiency in addition to ways that using project management software can help manufacturers. Operational efficiency improves with project management software.

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Performance Reporting for Projects: A Quick Guide

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Performance reporting provides that information by putting performance measurement, quality assurance and accountability data in context. Performance reports (like a project status report) do more than just show key performance indicators. Key performance indicators (KPI). KPI measurement frequency.

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10 Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Then we’ll list the 10 most important manufacturing KPIs and conclude with how project management software can help you track those manufacturing KPIs. Manufacturing KPIs are like any KPI in that they’re a metric to quantifiably measure performance over time; in this case, the KPIs focus on manufacturing.