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WRK41 - Project Process Analysis - Lifecycle Stage

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Overview

Work portfolio report that can select cost or revenue/benefit based measures from the financial planning data to drive bubble size.

Process control analytic that can be used to measure and monitor governance processes and to drive improvements in process cycle times. This work portfolio report analyzes the project Lifecycle Stage attribute, providing insight into:

  • Number of projects at each stage in the governance lifecycle
  • Measurement of overall (end-to-end) process cycle times, the time taken to pass between governance gates
  • Allow analysis of process cycle times by work attributes, such as work type, customer, work priority, etc
  • Comparison to process cycle time targets and identification of items that are exceeding target cycle times

Through the monitoring of a process, bottlenecks and process inefficiencies can be identified and this information used to target and deliver improvements in process.

           

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WRK41 example

           

 

           

Business Outcomes

  • Supports the tracking of process performance in terms of volume, throughput, and cycle times for projects through the project lifecycle
  • Provides data to support the optimization of the project lifecycle process

           

           

Supporting Capabilities

  • Project Governance

           

           

Report Details

Current Process Stage Count

This chart visualizes the distribution of projects by the stage they are currently in, and provides a detailed listing, which can be configured to show key attributes, such as the project manager name.

User parameters allow analysis by any work classification attribute, such as work type, work priority, or customer, visualized as the stacked bars.

           

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Current Process Stage Count

           

 

Total Process Stage Executions

This chart summarizes the total number of process stages/gates completed for a user specified time period, for example, the last month, the last quarter, the last year.

User parameters allow analysis by any work classification attribute, such as work type, work priority, or customer, visualized as the stacked bars.

           

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Total Process Stage Executions

                      

Process Stage Throughput

This chart summarizes the total number of process stages/gates completed each month, across a user-specified time period.

The stacked bars indicate the count for each stage/gate in the process that have been completed each month.

           

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Process Stage Throughput

           

Process Stage Average Cycle Time

This chart provides an average cycle time (duration) for each stage in the process, based on the stages/gates completed across a user specified time period. Duration is based on the number of working days between each gate (based on the STANDARD calendar).

User parameters allow analysis by any work classification attribute, such as work type, work priority, or customer, visualized as the stacked bars.

           

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Process Stage Average Cycle Time

           

           

           

Report Parameters 

Parameters Description
Range start This parameter determines the start of the range of dates for which data is returned. See Date Range.
Range end This parameter determines the finish of the range of dates for which data is returned. See Date Range.
Attribute for Grouping Attribute used for slicing in the report. Your administrator must define charting colors against an attribute for it to be displayed in the list.
Report View Determines the default view of the report.

Possible values are:
  • Dashboard/Charts Only
    This will hide the detail table and show the charts but will collapse all the chart details.
  • Chart with Summaries
    This will expand the summaries but keep the details collapsed
  • Chart with Full Details
    This will render a fully expanded report
Table Format Defines how the detail table at the bottom is formatted.

Possible values are:
  • Grouped
    This option renders a table with grouping
  • Non-grouped/Plain
    This option renders a table that’s good for analysis in Excel.
Neither of these apply when the report view is “Dashboard” because the table is hidden.

           

           

Date Range

The date range dates come from the daily table, which need to updated to an appropriate range of dates to use in the date range report parameters.

To update, run daily tables once from the daily screen before running the report, as well as setting up any daily tables job for the following reasons:

  1. The daily table jobs do not provide the option to set the range of data to update. This is done only from the daily table screen. And this is where the DAILY_PRD table will be updated.
  2. The daily table refresh (from the daily screen) truncates and repopulate all the daily tables.