Tag Archives: KPIs
Do you really need a Project Management Office? (PMO effectiveness metrics)
Why do you have a Project Management Office? What do they do? What value do they add to the company? Is that their opinion or the business’? If you have a clear definition of your PMO, go and ask some … Continue reading
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Compliance versus Support – The Chicken and the Egg
To bring some structure and consistency to projects (and business processes in general), audits or QA checks/gates are often performed to assess current practices and to enforce consistency. But in one of the great ironies, it is often necessary to … Continue reading
Project Performance KPIs – PMO Effectiveness
Rather than some tirade on why metrics are so great for projects, let’s just list some critical ones: Schedule – Planned vrs Actual – preferably via Earned Value Functional – % designed, implemented, tested, released Delivery on Time – Milestones … Continue reading
Filed under alignment, CMMI, defects, Effectiveness & Efficiency, improvement, ISO9001, KPI, method, metrics, people, PMO, problems, project management, risk, ROI, software quality, templates
Difference between Efficiency and Effectiveness
I get asked from time to time about the difference between Efficiency and Effectiveness. Of course, there’s the old saying of Efficiency between doing things right and Effectiveness is doing the right things. But it’s easier to understand via an … Continue reading
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