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

What performance reporting is for

Lesson 163 of 198 · 2 min

Three audiences: a project manager, an accountant, and somebody with forty projects and an hour a week. The audience here is different from every other module in this course. Project managers use plans and progress. Accountants use costing and billing. Performance reporting is for the person who oversees forty projects and has an hour a week. WHICH PROJECTS NEED MY ATTENTION? That is the question it answers. One question — and everything in this module either serves it or is decoration. The multidimensional model. Costs, revenue, margin, effort and progress summarized by project, organization, resource and period — so the same data answers many questions. PERFORMANCE REPORTING IS ONLY AS GOOD AS EVERYTHING BEFORE IT. Wrong RBS. Unreliable progress. Stale forecasts. All of them surface here as confident nonsense. Confident, because a dashboard does not hedge. It shows a number in a colour, and the colour is believed. BUILD FROM

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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