Baselines, Metrics and Measures...Oh My!

 

What you probably don't know is that these concepts are closely related and you really can't have one without the other. My goal in this three-part series is to teach you to appreciate these important concepts and put them into practice.

The purpose of these articles is to:

• Provide you with a working knowledge of baselines, metrics and measures (part 1)
• Enable you to make significant improvements through the application of baselines and metrics to processes, policies and procedures and other documents (part 2)
• Enable project managers to appreciate the importance of baselines, metrics and measures in projects and to gain added visibility and performance results from their projects (part 3)

Let's get started!

Baseline
The word "baseline" is a concept you frequently hear associated with project schedules and project management. Interestingly enough, baselines are equally important to the improvement of documents such as processes, policies and procedures.

You'll discover that the techniques used for …

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