Less Reporting. More Doing
Projects Need Better Measures
Today’s climate of corporate downsizing, restructuring and transformation are requiring project managers everywhere to streamline reporting processes and improve efficiency. Teams are frequently overwhelmed by requests for status updates and executive reports that take too much time to create and result in little to no change in project performance. Now more than ever, project teams need simple and straightforward performance measures that enable teams to regain focus and take action to ensure processes are both efficient and cost-effective.
What do you measure?
A recent study of organizations in the United Kingdom showed that 40% of project managers surveyed thought they led high performing teams with efficient processes that were best-in-class; however, benchmarking studies found that only 2.3% of the departments were actually best-in-class. The reason most managers today mistakenly believe their teams are performing better than they actually are is simple: you don’t know what you don’t measure.
High-performance measurement focuses less on reporting status and more on measuring the critical financial and non-financial measures that deliver continuous improvements in process efficiency and team performance.
High Performance Scorecard
There are an unlimited number of ways – both quantitative and qualitative – to measure and improve the performance of a team. To narrow the field down to just the high performance indicators (HPIs), Darby Consulting utilizes a high performance scorecard that leads to fewer, more impactful reports, less day-to-day effort and more efficient team performance.
Start with an Assessment
Darby Consulting’s Performance Measurement Assessment provides an organization clarity on its current state of performance measurement capability and includes a combination of primary data (interviews, discussions and/or surveys) and secondary data (existing documentation) to determine where the organization’s capabilities map to the Performance Measurement Maturity Model.
A Recommendations Report is provided at the conclusion of the assessment and summarizes the current state, opportunities for improving performance measurement capability and ‘quick wins’ prioritization.
About Darby Consulting
Darby Consulting is a leading North American project and change management consulting firm providing project and program management consulting, project support and change readiness services. We serve organizations across multiple industries and provide experienced, certified project and change management professionals who can quickly and efficiently deploy processes, tools, templates and technologies to meet any project challenge.
