Sampling for More Effective & Efficient Program/Project Progress Reporting

By Dr. Kenneth Smith, PMP

In this issue, Dr. Ken Smith continues on the tack of random sampling by highlighting the weaknesses inherent in census-style recurrent reporting, and - even if not replacing the extant MIS in its entirety - offering an even ‘quicker & easier’ sampling approach to validate program / project performance data.

Unquestionably, a lot of data are needed to measure implementation performance and support program / project management decision-making.  Unfortunately, all too often the structures institutionalized to acquire and analyze data are bureaucratically burdensome, cumbersome, costly, excessive, untimely and - regrettably - ultimately ineffective.

At the request of one government national agency Executive – for example — I interviewed, reviewed, categorized and compiled the following ‘fourteen faults of recurrent reports’ within his agency for his follow-up administrative-cleanup action.

For the full article click here in PM World Journal, Volume XI, Issue 2 - February 2022

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