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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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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn).

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Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Scrum.org

Assessing the performance of the Scrum Team to which it relates. When used as a target rather than a measure. Instead, it refers to the need for forecasting, planning and sizing. It was the search for a new way to estimate software projects that brought me to Scrum. Velocity is an excellent measure and a terrible target.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. References below. . And there are many other examples (see references). One case of 12 projects from a large contractor of Software Intensive System (SIS) shows similar variances . A Few References and Resources .

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Closing A Project with MS Project

MPUG

I see many PMs use the MS Project software tool to work on a project over its life cycle, but most don’t use MS Project to close the project. Variance analysis, on the other hand , is a technique with which one can know the cause and degree of difference between latest baseline and actual performance. References. [1]

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Tracking Performance: Switching from Project to Resource Level

Epicflow Blog

But in a multi-project environment, when more than two projects run in parallel, being focused on a project performance only can be harmful for your organization. Examining Project Progress and Performance: Essence and Key Techniques. References. Performance Reporting in the Project Management. Simplilearn (2022).

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. It can also refer to a comprehensive set of expenses or revenues.