MS Project Tutorial #3: Project Status Report with Tracking Software
Analyze your project schedule and report project status in 60 seconds
Save time with a project status report template that includes a project tracking software tool to analyze your Microsft Project schedule
Project status reporting is a project communication management process found in several project management guides including the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Project status reports often use a subjective "traffic light" reporting format that depicts the project status with a green, yellow, or red status.
There are several challenges with subjective status reporting including:
- Status is open to interpretation based on the project managers judgement
- A project can report GREEN every week and then suddenly go RED the week before a launch date
- Lack of visibility into milestone trends and overall project progress
- Subjective status reports can be rationalized to a GREEN status to avoid alerting senior management
If you've been delivering projects for a some period of time, I'm sure you can relate!
Experienced project managers will tell you the ideal status report would include both subjective and objective metrics to accurately report project status. However, gathering objective metrics takes a lot of time as it usually involves designing a metrics collection process that is a challenge to follow.
Fortunately, this tactical Microsoft Project training tutorial provides an easy to use project tracking software tool that generates meaninful metrics in seconds.
Thank you for the project status report. A perennial problem that PMs have with their Finance department is providing accurate, up to date and NON subjective reports so that they cannot fiddle the figures when onward reporting. - John Moverley
A simple and straightforward Microsoft Project Tutorial that...
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Teaches you how to generate meaningful metrics following 10 simple steps
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Quickly identifies and groups late tasks and problem areas in your project schedule
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Saves you time analyzing hundreds of tasks in preparation of a status report
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Includes Tactical Project Management's "proven in practice" project management status report template
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Provides objective transparancy to project schedule performance
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Aligns to the PMBOK 10.5 Report Performance Communications Management Knowledge Area
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An easier alternative to earned value management
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Improves your vendor management skills with outsourced projects
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With this technique, you will save hours of scanning hundreds of tasks and running multiple reports to identify late tasks in your project schedule. With in 60 seconds of using the Metrics in Minutes tool, you'll have a dashboard view of the future, late and completed tasks in a variety of useful reports.
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- Helps project managers analyze and report project status using better metrics.
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An effective status report should:
- Communicate key issues, risk and milestones in a 1 page format
- Include objective and subjective metrics to tell the "full" story
- Created once and communicated across different formats
- Can easily be shared in a program or portfolio deck presentation
- Based on actual experience using multiple formats and stakeholders
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