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 ...

If you ask five different people to define “project failure,” you’ll likely get five different answers. This is because project failure is subjective, determined by both a project’s success criteria ...

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 ...

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it “metric fixation.” The key components ...

The final metrics I'll address in this series are for productivity. This is a slippery slope. Frankly, I can count on one hand the plants I've seen with an effective measure over the last 10 years.

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Small business success often hinges on the ability of management to rally employees in order to achieve common goals that benefit the bottom line. Without effective management, it can be challenging ...

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 ...

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 ...

Energy yield as a metric for PV performance is no longer sufficient on its own. Image: American Public Power Association, Unsplash. The size of PV projects and increasingly complex market conditions ...