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Looking for thoughts on quantifying a qualitative deliverable.

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Elaine Wright Project Manager| Cohen Veterans Network Stamford, Ct, United States
The project is about defining a work process / operating model for sales pursuit. How would you measure success? Especially when you do not have influence on if you win the sale. Thanks in advance for your feedback
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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States
Start by defining the qualities that differentiate good vs. bad outputs. These could be things like the number of sales campaigns supported, success rate, or flow time. These are Key Performance Attributes (KPAs). Typically you will have a few. The direct or indirect measures of these attributes are called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Although they might not seem measurable, advertising agencies do this for very subjective subjects so it can be done. You can at least rate them such as on a scale of 1-5 for bad to good.

To measure the overall process quantitatively, you would combine those variables into a single value. That can be done as simply as using a kiveat/radar chart and finding the total area, by weighting the individual variables and combining them, or using fuzzy logic to combine dissimilar variables which sounds more complicated than it is.
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1 reply by Elaine Wright
Apr 22, 2019 2:52 PM
Elaine Wright
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Most helpful. Thank youi
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key is understanding that project is a component of the solution. Solution is equal to "the thing" to be created (product/service/result) plus "the process" to create it (project). Then, you have to define success related to the second component, not the first. I was part of the group of authors of new version of PMBOK and hard work was done trying to clarifying that mainly because the new role the PMI is focused: the business analyst. Take a look to the PMBOK because is a picture related to it. Just to comment, more work must be done, in my personal opinion, in future versions.
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1 reply by Elaine Wright
Apr 22, 2019 2:52 PM
Elaine Wright
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Thank you. I'll take a look at the latest PMBOK
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Elaine Wright Project Manager| Cohen Veterans Network Stamford, Ct, United States
Apr 19, 2019 12:56 PM
Replying to Keith Novak
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Start by defining the qualities that differentiate good vs. bad outputs. These could be things like the number of sales campaigns supported, success rate, or flow time. These are Key Performance Attributes (KPAs). Typically you will have a few. The direct or indirect measures of these attributes are called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Although they might not seem measurable, advertising agencies do this for very subjective subjects so it can be done. You can at least rate them such as on a scale of 1-5 for bad to good.

To measure the overall process quantitatively, you would combine those variables into a single value. That can be done as simply as using a kiveat/radar chart and finding the total area, by weighting the individual variables and combining them, or using fuzzy logic to combine dissimilar variables which sounds more complicated than it is.
Most helpful. Thank youi
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Elaine Wright Project Manager| Cohen Veterans Network Stamford, Ct, United States
Apr 20, 2019 5:44 AM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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Key is understanding that project is a component of the solution. Solution is equal to "the thing" to be created (product/service/result) plus "the process" to create it (project). Then, you have to define success related to the second component, not the first. I was part of the group of authors of new version of PMBOK and hard work was done trying to clarifying that mainly because the new role the PMI is focused: the business analyst. Take a look to the PMBOK because is a picture related to it. Just to comment, more work must be done, in my personal opinion, in future versions.
Thank you. I'll take a look at the latest PMBOK

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