Best Practices
Best Practices for Establishing Performance Metrics for IT Projects
10 actionable best practices for Establishing Performance Metrics for IT Projects — telling output metrics like velocity apart from real business outcomes — in a ready-to-use PowerPoint.
What this best-practices deck is for
A best-practices deck sets out the practices that decide whether this kind of initiative works, and the mistakes that undo it, on slides ready for a workshop or a leadership briefing.
Teams use it to plan an initiative, to check a plan already underway, and to brief people who will make decisions about it.
About These Best Practices
A focused set of 10 actionable best practices for Establishing Performance Metrics for IT Projects — the practices that separate a project that hits every milestone on the Gantt chart from one that actually moves the business metric it was funded to move. Built for leaders tired of tracking velocity instead of value.
What's Inside
- 10 Best Practices — covering the difference between output metrics like velocity and outcome metrics tied to business value, and revisiting metrics as project scope shifts
- Introduction — why on-time-and-on-budget is a delivery metric, not a success metric
- PowerPoint Format — Clean slides ready for team presentations, workshops, or leadership briefings
How Teams Use It
- PMO and IT leaders use it to define success criteria before a project starts, not retrofit them at the steering committee review
- Use as a checklist to audit whether current project metrics actually track business value
- Incorporate into training materials, onboarding decks, or strategy presentations