Why you need to care about a baseline!

Posted by Barneyausten under Management
From http://blog.myprojecttracker.com 5254 days ago

Project baselines allow a project manager to assess how well a particular project is running. It also allows business owners to understand which aspects of projects are going well or badly. Without a baseline, you are not assessing any project and will never improve your delivery.

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Written by ShawnHessinger
5254 days ago

One of the most frustrating situations in which to find oneself is in the midst of a project or initiative launched with one goal in mind only to have partners, associates or team members later decide that even though it failed in its initial goal it was wildly successful in some other respect. (No we didn't get as many additional subscriptions as we had hoped but our social media traffic does seem to be up.) Of course, since no real data was taken on social media activity before the project started, it is hard to quantify this feeling as anything more than wishful thinking after the project has failed in its initial objective. While any project can lead to unanticipated but important discoveries that weren't being looked for initially, it's so clear in many cases that team members are less interested in going back and demonstrating that their impression of these results is correct, measurable and repeatable, than in trying to make some vague positive but unmeasurable observation about the outcome of a project that has failed.

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Written by Barneyausten
5252 days ago

Hi Shawn. A very good example of the need to baseline. Thanks for sharing.

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