Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards
A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance
Harold Kerzner
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Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards
A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance
Harold Kerzner
About This Book
Harold Kerzner's essential strategies on measuring project management performance
With the growth of complex projects, stakeholder involvement, and advancements in visual-based technology, metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) are key factors in evaluating project performance. Dashboard reporting systems provide accessible project performance data, and sharing this vital data in a concise and consistent manner is a key communication responsibility of all project managers.
This third edition of Kerzner's groundbreaking work, Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards: A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance, helps functional managers gain a thorough grasp of what metrics and KPIs are and how to use them. Plus, this edition includes new sections on processing dashboard information, portfolio management PMO and metrics, and BI tool flexibility.
ā¢ Offers comprehensive coverage of the different dashboard types, design issues, and applications
- Provides full-color dashboards from some of the most successful project management companies, including IBM, Microsoft, and others
- Aligns with PMI's PMBOKĀ® Guide and stresses value-driven project management
- PPT decks are available by chapter and a test bank will be available for use in seminar presentations and courses
Get ready to bolster your awareness of what good metrics management really entails todayāand be armed with the knowledge to measure performance more effectively.
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1
The Changing Landscape of Project Management
Chapter Overview
Chapter Objectives
- To understand how project management has changed
- To understand the need for project management metrics
- To understand the need for better, more complex project management metrics
Key Words
- Certification boards
- Complex projects
- Engagement project management
- Frameworks
- Governance
- Project management methodologies
- Project success
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Executive View of Project Management
OLD VIEW | NEW VIEW |
Project management is a career path. | Project management is a strategic or core competency necessary for the growth and survival of the company. |
We need our people to receive Project Management Professional certifications. | We need our people to undergo multiple certifications and, at a minimum, to be certified in both project management and corporate business processes. |
Project managers will be used for project execution only. | Project managers will participate in strategic planning, the portfolio selection of projects, and capacity-planning activities. |
Business strategy and project execution are separate activities. | Part of the project managerās job is to bridge strategy and execution. |
Project managers just make project-based decisions. | Project managers make both project and business decisions. |
- Business Analyst Skills or Business Management
- Program Management
- Business Processes
- Managing Complex Projects
- Six Sigma
- Risk Management
- Agile Project Management