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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

ProjectManager.com

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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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You might also here artifacts referred to as templates, documents, outputs or deliverables, but in all cases they relate to the work of managing the project, not the thing you are creating as the output of the project. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mostly, the term refers to the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. You create them when they are needed and refer to and update them as necessary. What is an artifact?

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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

Why Reserves are Needed During the course of a project, you and your project team identify risks which are referred to as known/unknown risks. "If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy's Law. Click to Tweet. These risks are known – that is, they've been identified. Management Reserve. PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition.

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What is Middle Office Outsourcing?

Productivity Land

Defining Middle Office Outsourcing Middle office outsourcing refers to the process of delegating non-investment decision-making functions to third-party service providers. These functions may include trade settlement support, client reporting, data aggregation, investment accounting (IBOR), and performance measurement among others.

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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

Scrum.org

Misaligned Metrics and Reporting The “Misaligned Metrics and Reporting” anti-patterns category refers to the inconsistencies, errors, and misalignments in metrics, performance measures, planning, and reporting when applying Scrum.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

References below. . And there are many other examples (see references). A Few References and Resources . In this domain, we are guided by credible results using principles, processes, and procedures to increase the probability of program success. The growth of cost and schedule is not unique to commercial development.