Thursday, March 31, 2016

Measures

"The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success." Cullen Hightower

Let's take a look at measures and measurement across the board...

BA: Measure Once, Cut Twice By: Paul Mulvey, Modern Analyst, September 22, 2013
If you read the title and thought to yourself, “Hey, Mulvey got it wrong, it’s ‘Measure Twice, Cut Once’” I’ll bet you have had an experience with someone who used the old woodworking term. Woodworkers use it to indicate it’s better to double-check your measurements before you commit to cutting the wood, lest you waste time redoing work (and incurring expense if you have to buy more wood). It’s a...more

Implementing a pmValue Measurement System to measure project management performance and value will help organizations achieve one or more of the following goals:
• to identify the business impact of implementing project management improvement initiatives
• to compare costs to benefits of project management improvement initiatives
• to determine if a project management improvement initiative is accomplishing its objectives
• to assist in marketing future project management improvement initiatives. 
 
UX: 8 Effective ways of Measuring UX, By: Marko Nemberg
Ever wonder why your site has a lot of visitors, but not enough transactions, purchases or inquiries? In this post we will look at both marketing and UX metrics at a slightly different angle.
#1 Customer Support Performance
#2 Online vs. Office Visits
#3 Form Usage
#4 How is the Back Button Used (Rapid or Seldom)
#5 See How Pagination and Page Search are Used
#6 Navigation vs. Search
#7 Visitors Who Made the Purchase vs. Visitors Who Quit the Process
#8 Random Visitors vs. Visitors Who Bought Something

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