How to Manage & Report Consultant Performance
Measure What Matters When a growing percentage of your budget is spent on IT consultants, it might be a good time to take a closer look at how your consultants are performing. Most consulting and staffing firms simply track chargeable hours or burn rate because these are performance metrics that affect their bottom line – […]
What Do You Measure?
Given that managing change is as much an art as it is a science, as a change leader you need to be armed with reliable information to demonstrate that your plans and programs are gaining traction. Measurement is essential because at the end of the day you can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Project Measurement: Selecting KPI Objectives
Last week’s project measurement article examined the importance of identifying critical success factors (CSFs), which is the first step of Darby Consulting’s Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) for implementing performance measurement initiatives
Project Measurement: Critical Success Factors
Last week’s project measurement article uncovered how to use frameworks to provide clear direction on how a measurement initiative will deliver results. Also introduced was Darby Consulting’s Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) for implementing performance measurement initiatives.
Project Measurement: A Framework for Success
Setting out on a path to improve project performance can be a rewarding opportunity to learn more about yourself, your team and your organization. It can also yield benefits for everyone involved – from possible career promotions to better team and organizational performance.
Project Measurement: Introducing KPIs and KRIs
Business professionals are well versed in management concepts like the Balance Scorecard and key performance indicators (KPIs); however, new language is being introduced that further advances performance metrics. Key result indicators (KRIs) is one example of an emerging concept and this article attempts to explain the nuance between KPIs and KRIs.
Project Measurement: Why Do We Measure?
There are many everyday examples of our romance with measurement. Our desire to measure is innate to who we are as human beings – we like data. Whether we’re watching the scoreboard at a baseball game, reviewing the test scores of our children or tracking how many steps we’ve walked in a day on our Fitbit – it is clear we like to measure – and we hopefully have a bend toward improving performance based on our measures.
Introduction to Project Measurement
Measurement is essential to improving performance and project delivery. Do you ever wonder how some PMOs and project managers can so consistently deliver projects on time, on scope and within budget? Many of the best organizations, project management offices (PMOs) and project managers are practitioners of measurement.
