Projects are the backbone of the way you do business. Isn’t it time that you step up their analysis? After all, doing so is really the only way you can set concrete goals, ensure predictability, and ...

The broad project management sector has been seeking ways to reorient itself to meet client demands in an increasingly mercurial and fluid world. A related challenge is determining what metrics should ...

GitClear, maker of a toolkit for generating software project performance metrics, has publicly released Open Repos, a free tool to make it easier for contributors to participate in open source ...

This chapter reviews the use of project management metrics by the Office of Environmental Management (EM) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 1 EM, in coordination with DOE’s Office of Project ...

Project managers are ultimately responsible for making sure projects are completed on time, on budget, and with the features and functionality specified by the project’s stakeholders. So one would ...

Metrics—the numbers and measurements that help you run your business—are among the most crucial tools business leaders have at their disposal. They show us where we’ve been, and they help us set goals ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

In this June 2013 photo, then-Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter speaks during a meeting in Iowa City, saying a board task force was “very thoughtful” in its review of performance-based ...