Progress Reporting

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Summary

Project Managers (or their delegates) can report progress on each project
against key milestones in a consistent and structured way with Silver-Owl

Any slippage automatically generates a warning based upon your own company rules

The information is automatically built into executive level reports showing all projects

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Project Managers (or their delegates) would typically use these facilities weekly:

Create a new report from a template
Update your Progress Report

Senior Managers would use these facilities as required:

Executive level summary of all projects
Executive level roadmap of all projects

A Senior Manager might occasionally do the following:

Build a template for projects to follow
Specific your company rules for when to flag projects in trouble

The Project Manager creates a blank Progress Report from one of the Project Type templates

This can be used as-is or can be modified

Alternatively an ad-hoc Progress Report can be built from scratch

Your initial Progress Report will be created with the Stages from your Project Type template

You can modify them or add more stages if you wish, at any time

Project level Risks, Assumptions and Issues are automatically summarised

Enter your target finish dates for each stage, even if you are not sure about them to start with

When you are certain of them, or they have been approved, mark them as 'Firm'

Enter start dates if the stages do not immediately follow each other, or they overlap

Each week (or at your agreed frequency) enter the latest forecast start and end dates ...
... or enter the actual completion date if the stage has finished

Coloured signals are automatically generated based upon your company's rules for slippage

Also enter an Executive Summary of progress, which is used by the Programme Status Report

The Programme Manager can automatically generate a summary of all current projects ...
... based upon the Executive Summary entered into the latest Progress Report for each Project

The Programme Manager can automatically generate a 'Roadmap' showing all current projects

This is based upon the latest forecast or actual start/end dates of the Stages of each Phase ...
... as updated in each Project Progress Report

The Administrator can set up various Templates to reflect your different Project Types

Each comprises a number of Stages that end with an identifiable Milestone

Stages can be grouped into Phases

The Administrator must define company wide rules for signalling various degrees of slippage

Up to five colours, plus green may be used. These are hierarchical, but in the order you choose

You can measure slippage against the original target or the previous Progress Report

Slippage can be measured in days or percentage terms

You can also mark changed stage descriptions, multiple delays or out-of-date target dates

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