Category Archives: Project Management

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards – Part 3

Read about the Type 2 Approach Type 3: This category involves the use of some big vendor BI tool. These BI tools are quite comprehensive and come with tons of options to choose from. They provide ad-hoc reporting and easy dashboard creation options. Once installed and configured, there is often a need to define data [...]

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