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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics

Epicflow

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . The assessment of individual performance may include the following metrics: . Change management performance .

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. I'm not blaming the manifesto writers—no one invited a manager-type person to the meeting. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide. And, us agilists need to change.

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When Leaders Torture Their Employees

Markovitz Consulting

In a misguided attempt to improve quality, the management posts monthly scores on a variety of metrics. without understanding anything about effective use of metrics. If you read Mark Graban’s blog or book , you’ll immediately see problems with this chart. Pity the employees at a Starbucks in midtown NYC. These measurements?

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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. Brad is President and CEO of eHome Counseling Group, a company that is revolutionizing the behavioral healthcare industry by providing nationwide psychological counseling through metrics based virtual counseling services.

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How to Use Corporate Training Metrics to Drive Value

LSA Global

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts).

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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Writing alternatives: Blog posts. Now that we have many options for virtual meetings, I can stay safe in my office and meet nice people all over the world. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.)