Important Business Questions
Are my projects on track?Are my team members appropriately busy?What are our top issues and risks?What are our keystone projects?What are our billings by team member type?What is the billing forecast by month?
Using Project to Report
FiltersOnly look at task/resources that meet certain criteria
GroupsGroup by different fields to see rollups
Styles and FormattingHighlight data that you want to be noticed
Copy PictureShare the project plan with others
Visual Reports
Allows you to easily create reports that are:
• Customizable• Professional looking• Provide live analysis of Project data
Easily?
• Use familiar Excel and Visio UI• Templates are provided
Visual Reports
Features:
• Create PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel• Create PivotDiagrams in Visio• Save the Cube and Database for future use• Share templates
Requirements:
• Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or later• Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007
Dimensions – data you slice by
• Task Name, Is Critical?, Months
Measures – data that is rolled up
• Work, actual cost
Properties – Additional information that is available about dimensions. This data is not rolled up.
• Dates, % Complete, text fields
Dimensions, Measures, and Properties
What is a cube?
Chris Aston
Brad Sutton
Resources
Jan. Feb.
Work
180 hrs100 hrs
80 hrs
Phase1
Phase2
Tasks
50 hrs
30 hrs
60 hrs
40 hrs
TotalGroup:IW
Common Questions
Reporting in Project client versus Project serverI added a field to my report but I can’t find it.Who and how can these Reports be viewed?
Putting it All Together
What tasks are behind?
Which resources
are behind?
Do we have room
in the project plan for
additional work?
How has my schedule
changed over time?
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