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Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 16 · Project Performance Reporting

What breaks

Lesson 169 of 198 · 1 min

Six cases, and they are quick. One. "The dashboard shows last month." Summarization not run, or not scheduled. Two. "Everything is red." Thresholds not tuned. Three. "Margin is wrong." Burden or revenue, upstream. This module reports; it does not calculate from scratch — so the fix is in Module 11 or Module 15, never here. Four. "Twelve KPIs and nobody looks." Too many. Five. "The numbers changed after close." Summarization run mid-close. Six. "The executive does not trust it." USUALLY A DRILL PATH PROBLEM — OR ONE BAD NUMBER EARLY THAT WAS NEVER EXPLAINED. THIS MODULE HAS NO FAILURES OF ITS OWN. Look at that list again: stale data, untuned thresholds, an upstream calculation, too many indicators, bad timing, and lost confidence. Not one of them is a defect in performance reporting. This layer is a mirror — and every problem it shows you belongs to a module you have

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In this module: Module 16 · Project Performance Reporting

  1. 1What performance reporting is for
  2. 2Performance measures
  3. 3Creating key performance indicators
  4. 4Thresholds and status
  5. 5Summarization
  6. 6Dashboards and the executive view
  7. 7What breaks
  8. 8Lab: five questions, six KPIs at most