Understanding how to measure a project's success allows you to make more informed decisions and establish strategic, measurable business goals. Most project management metrics fall into one of four ...

What: “Creating a Balanced Portfolio of Information Technology Metrics,” by Kevin C. Desouza of Arizona State University, for the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Why: Information technology ...

As designers, we want the products we build to be satisfying and easy to use, but how can we know that’s the case? We start by measuring the user experience with evidence rather than opinions. But can ...

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 ...

A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

Metrics matter. They’re often used to measure business efficiency and to track that the business or product is headed in the right direction. Yet they can also be applied as personal measures to ...

Across public media, we all agree that digital platforms are important for reaching audiences where they are. But which ones matter most, and how do we leverage them most effectively? Metrics can help ...