Category Archives: Project Management

Contract Projects Cost Management Dashboard

This dashboard summarizes the billable and non-billable costs on contract projects.
The key performance measures (KPI)
• Cost
• Percent of budget
• Billable cost
• Percent of cost
• Non-billable cost
Contract Projects Cost Trend Report
This report shows cost trend for the selected group of projects. It shows cost amounts for
a progression of selected periods, thus illustrating the trend in cost [...]

Capital Projects Cost Management Dashboard

The dashboard summarizes capital costs and non-capital costs or expenses on capital projects.
The key performance measures (KPI) for capital project
• Cost
• Capital Cost
• Percent of Cost
• Expense

Capital Projects Cost
This displays the breakout of capitalizable and non capitalizable costs for capital
and indirect/capital project types.

The business questions answered in this report are:
• How much have I spent [...]

Projects Operations Management Dashboard

This dashboard summarizes bookings and backlog amounts, resource utilization, and
resource availability.
The key performance measures (KPI) for operations are:
• Billable Utilization Percent
• Total Utilization Percent
• Available Resources Percent
• Bookings
• Backlog
• Book to Bill ratio

Projects Bookings and Backlog
This compares bookings and backlog for the current and comparison periods.
The business questions answered in this report are:
• How do [...]

Projects Profitability Management Dashboard

This dashboard can help you answer some of the business questions as below.
• How profitable are the projects in my organizations?
• How does project profitability compare to the budget?
• How does project profitability compare to last year or the previous period?
• How profitable are the projects of the selected category and type (such as Renovation
projects [...]

Funds Management Dashboards | Public Sector Manager Dashboard

The Funds Management dashboard lets public sector managers and analysts compare encumbrances and actual expenditures to budgets, and view the status of funds in hierarchies of funds, cost centers, and expense categories.

For each fund, cost center, and expense category, you can see the budget, encumbrances, and actual expenses, as well as available funds.

The Funds Management [...]

School Summary Dashboard | Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Metrics

This is another great example of transparency at school level
The school dashboard measures important metrics against set Goals

School Operations

Buses on time
Passing Safety Audits
Fully Staffed
Financial Audit Opinion
Construction
Student Achievement

EOG Reading
EOG Math
Writing
Ethnic Gap
Graduation Rate

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education established Reform Governance Policy AEC in October 2006 so that everyone in the community could see how our [...]

Dallas Independent School District Dashboard | Principal’s dashboard

These dashboard screenshots are courtesy of Dallas ISD Blog
These are also named “Principal’s Dashboard“

 
One of the readers going by the name “TommyBoy” makes an interesting comment

Dashboards, obviously, take the driving analogy to stupid.
Dashboards provide good data, sure, but if an administrator spends all his/her time looking at a dashboard and not at “reality” through the [...]

Knowledge Area, Projects, Funding – LMD Dashboards – Part 1

In this article Leadership Management dashboard discussed how CSREES uses Oracle Portal technology for their reporting and Dashboard needs.
Joseph Barbano (REEIS-Leadership Mgmt Dashboard Project Manager) kindly sent us the link to their dashboard portal.
When you logon to the system you get to perform few setups to register with the database.
There are three subtabs that you [...]

Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD) at CSREES

This Dashboards and Business Intelligence in Government describes how national program leaders at the Cooperative of State Research Education and Extension Services use a dashboard to quickly review the project status of grants awarded to the research, education and extension communities.
Building the Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD) at Cooperative of State Research Education and Extension Services [...]

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards – Part 4

Read about the
Type – 1 approach
Type – 2 approach
Type – 3 approach
Type 4: This type defines the method of creating dashboard using Excel. The data and presentation is all part of the Excel file. This is the most popular approach as it is very easy and affordable to create dashboards. It is the least favourable [...]

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