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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 ...

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Engineering firms have always measured success based on specific project metrics such as reducing project delays and delivering on budget and time. These metrics are essential in project management, ...

A new report from Forrester Research explains how IT project management metrics influence perceptions of failure and describes four specific measures project management offices can take to increase ...

Agile methodology, a process that breaks down larger projects into smaller phases and focuses on constant improvement, is one of the more collaborative methods of project management. As such, ...

To understand why the results differ from Standish, I asked Blaize Horner Reich, one of the authors, to explain. Blaize sent me unpublished material describing differences between her group's ...

This chapter reviews the use of project management metrics by the Office of Environmental Management (EM) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 1 EM, in coordination with DOE’s Office of Project ...