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Measuring the Gross Margin of Specific Projects

This question was originally posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 10:47:57 AM by mzaret20000 on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/. "Hi Douglas, I have been asked to provide the gross margin for client engagements. My company is a recruiting firm that operates...

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Pass/Fail Questions

Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:46:05 PM by "Hi Doug, I want to share an observation a V.P. made after doing the 10 pass fail questions. If one was to input 50% confidence to all the questions and randomly...

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Teaching Graduate Students Calibration

Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:42:04 AM, by djr. "Let me start off by saying, I really appreciate this book and have found it very useful. I enjoyed the calibration exercises and decided to include them...

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The Statistics Behind the Calibration Scores

Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:20:57 AM. "Hi Douglas, I want to thank you for your work in this area .Using the information in your book I used Minitab 15 and created an attribute agreement analysis plot....

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How to Measure Innovation

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:30:54 PM, by JBehling. "I am Six Sigma Black Belt for an IS Organization and my team has been struggling to measure the impact of "Innovation" in our company. We bring new and...

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How to Measure Performance

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Friday, March 20, 2009 9:14:48 PM, by jerry. "Greetings, I loved your book. Thanks for sharing such valuable information. Now I'm trying to apply it. I am leading a project of training developers and...

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Length of Calibration

Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, March 09, 2009 9:14:11 AM. "I just read your book and found it fascinating. Thanks. On calibrated estimates, once experts are calibrated, do they stay calibrated? Or do you repeat every time...

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Measuring Leadership

Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com on Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:30:54 PM, by Paddy. "Hi Douglas Firstly let me give you a huge wrap for the book - I would say its invaluable but that would be wrong, because as I am learning "Everything can be...

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