A New Online Benchmarking Tool
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by Dave Garrett
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Situation: You want better assess project risk.
ITProjectMetrics.com is a rather crude looking online tool - but the people who put it together may have really hit on something. The site gathers project information (both demographics and performance data) from people like you, then lets you know how different factors might affect project success. At this point the sample size is too small (86 projects), but we could all help change that if we were so inclined. Everyone wants benchmarks and everyone wants to better understand risk from every angle. These sorts of things help you define success and make sure you don't stumble over common obstacles that should have been avoided.
You only enter project data on completed efforts. Here's what the current breakout looks like:
- Applications Development - 42
- Customer Relationship Management - 5
- Data Warehouse - 5
- Document Management - 2
- E-Commerce, Business-to-Business - 3
- E-Commerce, Business-to-Consumer - 2
- Hardware Upgrade - 4
- Legacy Replacement - 4
- Other - 10
- Software Upgrade - 9
Here are a few examples of the data you'll get back from the site:



Posted on: October 18, 2008 01:46 PM |
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 | Dunphy |
Please check the link provided as it does not take me to a recognisable becnhmarking site.
Sylvie Edwards
Professor/Program coordinator| Durham College (DC)
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Thank you for pointing me to this great online tool. I will keep an eye on it to see if the data builds in it enough to provide some data points of comparaison for my own projects.
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