Selecting Metrics

Your Critical Thinking assignment this week asks you to select metrics for project management purposes of either a home renovation or software upgrade project.

Discuss with your classmates:

• what purpose should be served by your choices,
• what units of measure you will use,
• how you will choose among financial, success-based, project-based, and project management process metrics.

Discuss which are most appropriate for the case: quantitative, practical, directional, actionable, financial, milestones, or success metrics and why.

Be sure to post a substantive initial post of at least 250 words by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. MT and respond with at least 100 words to at least two classmates with substantive responses by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. A substantive post responds to the topics presented completely and/or asks a thoughtful question pertaining to the topic. In your replies to classmates, build on something your classmate said, explain why and how you see things the same, or differently, and ask a probing or clarifying question.