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Making Metrics Count: Getting it Right (Part 2) Making Metrics Count: Getting it Right (Part 2)
-by Sri Nagarajan, PMP
This series focuses on providing a comprehensive introduction to the approach and some best practices around metrics and reporting. Here, we dive deeper into some best practices that will help ensure that your gains from the metrics processes are sustained in the long term.
Making Metrics Count: Getting it Right (Part 1) - by Sri Nagarajan, PMP
No Workforce Metrics?! (Part 2)No Workforce Metrics?! (Part 2)
-by Joe Wynne
 Workforce metrics are not project oriented. So what exactly should you do in your project to maximize workforce value? The first installment provided a list of planning tasks that reduce costs. Now it’s time to increase the value of the workforce you have.
The Metric ColorsThe Metric Colors
-by Mark Mullaly, PMP
 The use and misuse of metrics is a colorful world. Are you red, yellow or green? And what does that mean, anyway? Be careful of what you ask for…you just might get it.
Developing Alignment Metrics from the Top DownDeveloping Alignment Metrics from the Top Down
-by Michael R. Wood
 Developing quantifiable criteria by which success can be determined should not be such a difficult thing. But based on the countless articles, workshops and seminars on the topic, metrics must be one tough nut to crack.
You Are What You Measure - by Mike Donoghue
Operational Metrics - by Vijay Sankaran
No Workforce Metrics?! (Part 1) - by Joe Wynne
Misleading Metrics - by Mike Griffiths, Quadrus Development, Inc.
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