As organizations strive to measure the progress of their transformation initiatives, many continue to use the legacy metrics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is a tired mantra, so let’s advance the discussion: What the heck are you measuring---and why? Talk to enough business owners, investors and advisors and you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s National Physical Laboratory is leading a ‘deep-dive’ research initiative on performance metrics and benchmarking for quantum computers. It’s a foundational piece of work that will ultimately ...