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Lifecycle Lifecycle <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> Professionals<br />

Professionals<br />

REPORTING PHASE BEST PRACTICES<br />

33. Project <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Management</strong> – Project <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

is <strong>the</strong> discipline of organizing and managing resources to ensure that <strong>the</strong><br />

project is completed within <strong>the</strong> defined scope. Project performance<br />

reporting is <strong>the</strong> process of collecting project baseline data and distributing<br />

performance information to stakeholders. Implementing projects<br />

performance measurement ensures that your reporting clarifies how<br />

resources are being used to obtain <strong>the</strong> objectives of <strong>the</strong> project.<br />

34. Scorecard / Dashboard Development – Scorecard / Dashboard<br />

Development is <strong>the</strong> process of planning, identifying and implementing an<br />

easy access view of how well <strong>the</strong> organization is reaching strategic goals.<br />

Scorecard / Dashboard Development is <strong>the</strong> process of displaying whe<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>the</strong> activities of a company are meeting its objectives in terms of vision<br />

and strategy through a series of graphs, charts, gauges, and o<strong>the</strong>r visual<br />

indicators that illustrate performance in real time. Scorecard / Dashboard<br />

Development includes identifying actionable indicators, lead indicators,<br />

alerts and thresholds and enabling stakeholders to access data easily.<br />

35. Customer Satisfaction <strong>Management</strong> – Customer Satisfaction<br />

<strong>Management</strong> is <strong>the</strong> process of ensuring that customer’s expectations are<br />

met or exceeded over <strong>the</strong> lifetime of <strong>the</strong> product or service. Customer<br />

Satisfaction <strong>Management</strong> involves understanding specifically what, in<br />

customer’s eyes, an organization is doing well and where that organization<br />

needs to improve in order to better support <strong>the</strong>m. Ultimately, Customer<br />

Satisfaction <strong>Management</strong> leads to identifying opportunities for products<br />

and service innovation and serves as a basis for performance appraisal<br />

and reward systems.<br />

36. Service Level Tracking and <strong>Management</strong> – Service levels are<br />

predefined by a service level agreement (SLA) between <strong>the</strong> user<br />

community and <strong>the</strong> IS department and between IS and external service<br />

providers. Ideally this is a seamless contract that will establish specific<br />

services that IS will deliver to <strong>the</strong> end-user community with regards to<br />

various uptime, performance, and problem resolution criteria. The metrics<br />

contained in a SLA need to be specific, measurable, track able, and<br />

meaningful.<br />

The Lifecycle <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Kit and Organizational <strong>Performance</strong><br />

and Best Practices Analysis provides all of <strong>the</strong> processes, techniques and<br />

frameworks to implement a successful enterprise-wide performance solution.<br />

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