Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards a guide to measuring and monitoring project performance

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kerzner, Harold, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated [2022]
Edición:Fourth edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811330506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT METRICS, KPIs, AND DASHBOARDS
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE
  • 1 THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 1.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 EXECUTIVE VIEW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • 1.2 COMPLEX PROJECTS
  • Comparing Traditional and Nontraditional Projects
  • Defining Complexity
  • Trade-offs
  • Skill Set
  • Governance
  • Decision Making
  • Fluid Methodologies
  • 1.3 GLOBAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • 1.4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES AND FRAMEWORKS
  • Light Methodologies
  • Heavy Methodologies
  • Frameworks
  • 1.5 THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE
  • 1.6 ENGAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • 1.7 CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT
  • 1.8 OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • 1.9 A NEW LOOK AT DEFINING PROJECT SUCCESS
  • Success Is Measured by the Triple Constraints
  • Customer Satisfaction Must Be Considered as Well
  • Other (or Secondary) Factors Must Be Considered as Well
  • Success Must Include a Business Component
  • Prioritization of Success Constraints May Be Necessary
  • The Definition of Success Must Include a "Value" Component
  • Multiple Components for Success
  • The Future
  • 1.10 THE GROWTH OF PAPERLESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • 1.11 PROJECT MANAGEMENT MATURITY AND METRICS
  • 1.12 PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING AND METRICS
  • Best Practice versus Proven Practice
  • Benchmarking Methodologies
  • Benchmarking Costs
  • Types of Benchmarking
  • Benchmarking Code of Conduct
  • Benchmarking Mistakes
  • Points to Remember
  • 1.13 CONCLUSIONS
  • 2 THE DRIVING FORCES FOR BETTER METRICS
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 2.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 2.1 STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT
  • 2.2 PROJECT AUDITS AND THE PMO
  • 2.3 INTRODUCTION TO SCOPE CREEP
  • Defining Scope Creep
  • Scope Creep Dependencies
  • Causes of Scope Creep
  • Need for Business Knowledge
  • Business Side of Scope Creep.
  • Ways to Minimize Scope Creep
  • 2.4 PROJECT HEALTH CHECKS
  • Understanding Project Health Checks
  • Who Performs the Health Check?
  • Life Cycle Phases
  • 2.5 MANAGING DISTRESSED PROJECTS
  • Root Causes of Failure
  • Definition of Failure
  • Early Warning Signs of Trouble
  • Selecting the Recovery Project Manager
  • Recovery Life Cycle Phases
  • 3 METRICS
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 3.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 3.1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT METRICS: THE EARLY YEARS
  • The Project
  • Timeline
  • 3.2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT METRICS: CURRENT VIEW
  • Metrics and Small Companies
  • 3.3 METRICS MANAGEMENT MYTHS
  • 3.4 SELLING EXECUTIVES ON A METRICS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
  • 3.5 UNDERSTANDING METRICS
  • 3.6 CAUSES FOR LACK OF SUPPORT FOR METRICS MANAGEMENT
  • 3.7 USING METRICS IN EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
  • 3.8 CHARACTERISTICS OF A METRIC
  • 3.9 METRIC CATEGORIES AND TYPES
  • 3.10 SELECTING THE METRICS
  • 3.11 SELECTING A METRIC/KPI OWNER
  • 3.12 METRICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  • 3.13 CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
  • 3.14 METRICS AND THE PMO
  • 3.15 METRICS AND PROJECT OVERSIGHT/GOVERNANCE
  • 3.16 METRICS TRAPS
  • 3.17 PROMOTING THE METRICS
  • 3.18 CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED'S PROJECT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT APPROACHES
  • Toll Gates (Project Management-Related Progress and Performance Reporting)
  • Quad Sections
  • 4 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 4.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 4.1 THE NEED FOR KPIS
  • 4.2 USING THE KPIS
  • 4.3 THE ANATOMY OF A KPI
  • 4.4 KPI CHARACTERISTICS
  • Accountability
  • Empowered
  • Timely
  • Trigger Points
  • Easy to Understand
  • Accurate
  • Relevant
  • 4.5 CATEGORIES OF KPIS
  • 4.6 KPI SELECTION
  • 4.7 KPI MEASUREMENT
  • 4.8 KPI INTERDEPENDENCIES
  • 4.9 KPIS AND TRAINING
  • 4.10 KPI TARGETS
  • 4.11 UNDERSTANDING STRETCH TARGETS
  • 4.12 KPI FAILURES
  • 4.13 KPIS AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
  • 4.14 KPI BAD HABITS.
  • KPI Bad Habits Causing Your Performance Measurement Struggles
  • 4.15 BRIGHTPOINT CONSULTING, INC.-DASHBOARD DESIGN: KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND METRICS
  • Introduction
  • Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
  • Scorecards, Dashboards, and Reports
  • Gathering KPI and Metric Requirements for a Dashboard
  • Interviewing Business Users
  • Putting It All Together-The KPI Wheel
  • Start Anywhere, but Go Everywhere
  • Wheels Generate Other Wheels
  • A Word about Gathering Requirements and Business Users
  • Wrapping It All Up
  • 5 VALUE-BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT METRICS
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 5.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 5.1 VALUE OVER THE YEARS
  • 5.2 VALUES AND LEADERSHIP
  • Project Manager
  • Team Members
  • Organization
  • Stakeholders
  • 5.3 COMBINING SUCCESS AND VALUE
  • Internal Success
  • Financial Success
  • Future Success
  • Customer-related Success
  • 5.4 RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR VALUE METRICS
  • 5.5 THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
  • 5.6 CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER IMPACT ON VALUE METRICS
  • 5.7 CUSTOMER VALUE MANAGEMENT
  • 5.8 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND VALUE
  • 5.9 BACKGROUND OF METRICS
  • Redefining Success
  • Growth in the Use of Metrics
  • 5.10 SELECTING THE RIGHT METRICS
  • 5.11 THE FAILURE OF TRADITIONAL METRICS AND KPIS
  • 5.12 THE NEED FOR VALUE METRICS
  • 5.13 CREATING A VALUE METRIC
  • 5.14 PRESENTING THE VALUE METRIC IN A DASHBOARD
  • 5.15 INDUSTRY EXAMPLES OF VALUE METRICS
  • Aerospace and Defense: Company 1
  • Aerospace and Defense: Company 2
  • Capital Projects: Company 2
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 1 (No Percentages Provided)
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 2
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 3
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 4
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 5
  • IT Consulting (External Clients): Company 6.
  • IT Consulting (Internal): Company 1
  • Software Development: (Internal) (No Percentages Provided)
  • Telecommunications: Company 1
  • Telecommunications: Company 2 (No Percentages Provided)
  • New Product Development
  • Automotive Suppliers
  • Global Consulting: Company 1 (Not Industry Specific and No Weights)
  • Global Consulting: Company 2 (Not Industry specific and No Weights)
  • 5.16 USE OF CRISIS DASHBOARDS FOR OUT-OFRANGE VALUE ATTRIBUTES
  • 5.17 ESTABLISHING A METRICS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
  • 5.18 USING VALUE METRICS FOR FORECASTING
  • 5.19 METRICS AND JOB DESCRIPTIONS
  • 5.20 GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF METRICS
  • 5.21 CREATING A PROJECT VALUE BASELINE
  • The Performance Measurement Baseline
  • Project Value Management
  • The Value Management Baseline
  • Selecting the Value Baseline Attributes
  • Overachievement Trends
  • Risks of Overachievement
  • 6 DASHBOARDS
  • CHAPTER OVERVIEW
  • 6.0 INTRODUCTION
  • 6.1 DOES EVERYONE KNOW WHAT A DASHBOARD REALLY IS?
  • Dashboards!
  • Dashboard Design
  • Guided Analysis
  • Data Exploration
  • More
  • Not a Dashboard
  • Conclusion
  • 6.2 HOW WE PROCESS DASHBOARD INFORMATION
  • 6.3 DASHBOARD CORE ATTRIBUTES
  • 6.4 THE MEANING OF INFORMATION
  • 6.5 TRAFFIC LIGHT DASHBOARD REPORTING
  • 6.6 DASHBOARDS AND SCORECARDS
  • Dashboards
  • Scorecards
  • Summary
  • 6.7 CREATING A DASHBOARD IS A LOT LIKE ONLINE DATING
  • Finding Out the Needs of the Stakeholders
  • Making a Connection
  • Choosing Your Key Performance Indicators
  • Selecting Your Visuals
  • Building on the Momentum
  • Maintenance
  • 6.8 BENEFITS OF DASHBOARDS
  • 6.9 IS YOUR BI TOOL FLEXIBLE ENOUGH?
  • A Flexible BI Tool-What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter?
  • Why Is Flexibility So Important?
  • Stay up to Speed with Your Changing Business Needs
  • Be Independent (with Fewer Tools and Users Involved to Get Your Job Done)
  • Adapt to Each and Every User.
  • Be Ready for the Unknown
  • 6.10 FOUR EASY STEPS TO IMPLEMENTING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION
  • Step 1: Understand the Business Needs
  • Step 2: Keep It SMART
  • Step 3: Determine Your Deliverables
  • Step 4: To the Drawing Board
  • Closing Comments
  • 6.11 RULES FOR DASHBOARDS
  • 6.12 THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DASHBOARD DESIGN AND WHY THEY SHOULD BE AVOIDED
  • Deadly Sin #1: Off the Page, Out of Mind
  • Deadly Sin #2: And This Means … What?
  • Deadly Sin #3: Right Data, Wrong Chart
  • Deadly Sin #4: Not Making the Right Arrangements
  • Deadly Sin #5: A Lack of Emphasis
  • Deadly Sin #6: Debilitating Detail
  • Deadly Sin #7: Not Crunching the Numbers
  • 6.13 BRIGHTPOINT CONSULTING, INC.: DESIGNING EXECUTIVE DASHBOARDS
  • Introduction
  • Dashboard Design Goals
  • Defining Key Performance Indicators
  • Defining Supporting Analytics
  • Choosing the Correct KPI Visualization Components
  • Supporting Analytics
  • A Word about Labeling Your Charts and Graphs
  • Putting It All Together: Using Size, Contrast, and Position
  • Validating Your Design
  • 6.14 ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD
  • 6.15 USING EMOTICONS
  • 6.16 MISLEADING INDICATORS
  • 6.17 AGILE AND SCRUM METRICS
  • Introduction: Agile Overview
  • Agile Metrics
  • General Agile Metrics
  • Scrum Metrics
  • Other Sprint Charts
  • Iteration Metrics
  • Scaled Agile Metrics
  • Lean Kanban Metrics
  • Summary
  • 6.18 DATA WAREHOUSES
  • The Growth of Business Intelligence Systems
  • Big Data
  • 6.19 DASHBOARD DESIGN TIPS
  • Colors
  • Fonts and Font Size
  • Use Screen Real Estate
  • Component Placement
  • 6.20 TEAMQUEST CORPORATION
  • White Paper #1: Metric Dashboard Design
  • White Paper #2: Proactive Metrics Management
  • The Future
  • Conclusion
  • 6.21 A SIMPLE TEMPLATE
  • 6.22 SUMMARY OF DASHBOARD DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
  • The Importance of Design to Information Dashboards.
  • The Rules for Color Usage on Your Dashboard.