I need to quantify how successfully I managed the project aside from the normal under budget, met target, and met requirements. I also need to justify having a PM manage the project as opposed to non-PM manage it, had a quantifyable benefit.
Assuming you are done completing a project successfully, and also assume there is no data on previous projects to compare to, how can you prove the benefit you had in the project?
Any ideas you have on this topic would be appreciated. Year-end reviews in my company require quantifying everything I did. I already submitted my review, but just figured it will be interesting discussion to have for people in similar position as me, or who want to put stuff in their resume.
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This question is an eternal one. Take a look at the recent PMI study, "Value of Project Management" for some ideas.
Interestingly, they found that through research they could not show quantifiable measures of project management's impact (budget, schedule, ROI). That says to me that you may have trouble isolating those numbers for your individual contribution.
They focused on less quantifiable (but still important) measures, like client and executive satisfaction and clarity of communications.
Personally, I tend to collect stories of situations where I was able to save the company money or avert a problem. One year, I emphasized how quickly I shut down a failing project -- my manager agreed that they would have wasted months of time working on a losing project if I had not shut it down quickly. Usually stories like that give me enough quantifiable benefits to complete a review.
