Project managers use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to monitor and communicate the status of a project. KPIs should be measurable metrics that indicate if objectives are being met. Effective KPIs are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound. KPIs can be quantitative or qualitative and should be selected to provide insights without overwhelming stakeholders with too much data. Dashboards consolidate multiple KPIs using visual widgets like charts, tables and gauges to give viewers a quick status update in an easy to understand format.
Project Management is a well defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge. Putting these guides and BOK’s to work for the benefit of the enterprise is the role of Project Governance
In today's fast-paced business environment, successful project management has its place on the organizational hall-of-fame.
All major corporations have recognized that the future of their corporate success lies in their employees' abilities to effectively manage overlapping, complex projects.
Project Management is a well defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge. Putting these guides and BOK’s to work for the benefit of the enterprise is the role of Project Governance
In today's fast-paced business environment, successful project management has its place on the organizational hall-of-fame.
All major corporations have recognized that the future of their corporate success lies in their employees' abilities to effectively manage overlapping, complex projects.
Project Management Best Practices - Tips and TechniquesInvensis Learning
Did you know? For every Billion spent on projects globally, enterprises lose about 97 million dollars due to poor project performance.
Let's face it - we are all managing projects every day! They may be simple or more complicated, but undoubtedly you are managing projects within your role. You don't need to be a project manager to learn how to manage your projects effectively and efficiently. This interactive presentation will provide the basics of managing projects - regardless of their size or complexity. Webinar attendees will learn a variety of tools, techniques and best practices to enable them to more efficiently manage the projects they are assigned and the projects they want to undertake, including how to socialize initiatives to get buy-in from others. This webinar will provide you with a better understanding of how project management can assist you in performing your role in your organization.
Areas covered:
Project Scope Statements
Developing the business case for your projects
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Developing your Project Plan
Itemizing your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
Enhancing your Communications Plan
Identifying, planning and managing project risks
Managing changes to the project
Reporting on status
Driving decisions from the team and key stakeholders
Click here to check upcoming webinar for project management https://goo.gl/M9v8oP
About Invensis Learning
Invensis Learning is a leading training and professional development solutions provider. We deliver globally-recognized training and certifications to individuals and enterprises to aid key business transformations and help to stay relevant by closing skill gaps and cultivate an environment that fosters continuous learning. We have trained 10000+ professionals over wide portfolio of training and certification courses. We are a trusted partner of many Fortune 500 companies for training and development
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it is an overview of project management. concept of project management, scope of project management with example, types of project management, generation and screening, difficulties and its importance.
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This project charter guide covers everything you need to know about the project charter. It is based on the free template you can download here: http://project-charter-template.casual.pm/
Project Management Best Practices - Tips and TechniquesInvensis Learning
Did you know? For every Billion spent on projects globally, enterprises lose about 97 million dollars due to poor project performance.
Let's face it - we are all managing projects every day! They may be simple or more complicated, but undoubtedly you are managing projects within your role. You don't need to be a project manager to learn how to manage your projects effectively and efficiently. This interactive presentation will provide the basics of managing projects - regardless of their size or complexity. Webinar attendees will learn a variety of tools, techniques and best practices to enable them to more efficiently manage the projects they are assigned and the projects they want to undertake, including how to socialize initiatives to get buy-in from others. This webinar will provide you with a better understanding of how project management can assist you in performing your role in your organization.
Areas covered:
Project Scope Statements
Developing the business case for your projects
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Developing your Project Plan
Itemizing your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
Enhancing your Communications Plan
Identifying, planning and managing project risks
Managing changes to the project
Reporting on status
Driving decisions from the team and key stakeholders
Click here to check upcoming webinar for project management https://goo.gl/M9v8oP
About Invensis Learning
Invensis Learning is a leading training and professional development solutions provider. We deliver globally-recognized training and certifications to individuals and enterprises to aid key business transformations and help to stay relevant by closing skill gaps and cultivate an environment that fosters continuous learning. We have trained 10000+ professionals over wide portfolio of training and certification courses. We are a trusted partner of many Fortune 500 companies for training and development
For more details please visit: https://www.invensislearning.com/
it is an overview of project management. concept of project management, scope of project management with example, types of project management, generation and screening, difficulties and its importance.
Contents are sourced from different authors including PMBOK 5th Edition.
This is provided for free as part of our Continuing Practice in Project Management Professional Certification. You may download, share but please refrain from commercializing it or altering parts. Thanks.
For more on Innovations and Project Management, please visit www.facebook.com/SigmaProcessExcellence
Here are 489 slides for you to successfully teach your next PMP/CAPM class with confidence. We have also included questions after each chapter to reinforce the concepts for better exam preparation. Purchase your copy today: http://www.advconsultants.com/product/pmp-capm-instructor-slides/
This project charter guide covers everything you need to know about the project charter. It is based on the free template you can download here: http://project-charter-template.casual.pm/
Developing Metrics and KPI (Key Performance IndicatorsVictor Holman
Get a FREE performance management kit and access to all of Victor's full videos at:
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This presentation covers the basics of developing successful performance metrics, from developing winning KPIs, learning how to develop the right metrics, the rules of developing KPIs and metrics and common performance metrics for managing a successful organization.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should be used to understand performance and drive better decision-making. However, most companies struggle to find the vital few KPIs. Here is a list of the 25 top KPIs is use today.
Governance of agile Software projectsby an automated KPI Cockpit in the CloudpliXos GmbH
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Presentation of Dr. Udo Wilski, CTO and Member of Board
at the Swiss IT Sourcing Forum in Zuerich, 2012
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In Best Practices in Strategic Planning for A/E Firms, we begin by providing you with the results of a survey that PSMJ did with 75 firms on how they conduct strategic planning.
Next, we provide you with some information on what we have gleaned from the survey. We have mined the data to figure out what works and what doesn’t work in strategic planning.
Then, to help you conduct better strategic planning at your firm, we talk specifically about some things that we have learned over the many years we have been engaged in strategic planning with architecture and engineering firms.
We wrap up with some recommendations on best practices in strategic planning. Our goal is to provide new insight into how your firm can maximize your strategic planning efforts for success in 2016.
7 Golden Rules for Creating KPI Dashboard SoftwareHRMC Matrix
KPI dashboard software or best KPI dashboard tools are too much essential to display industry
achievement rightly to the management or anyone. Depending on your industry, some KPI dashboard software might be a better fit than others and as a result, the selection of the right KPI tracking software is
very important. KPI tracking tools are used to track all KPI data considering the business goals of the organization. KPI dashboard software or KPI tools always try to produce an analytical report which will be easily understandable by everyone.
7 Golden Rules for Creating KPI Dashboard SoftwareHRMC Matrix
KPI dashboard software or best KPI dashboard tools are too much essential to display industry
achievement rightly to the management or anyone. Depending on your industry, some KPI dashboard software might be a better fit than others and as a result, the selection of the right KPI tracking software is
very important. KPI tracking tools are used to track all KPI data considering the business goals of the organization. KPI dashboard software or KPI tools always try to produce an analytical report which will be easily understandable by everyone.
Objective: Contracted as an outside auditor, the objective was to perform an analysis for opportunities to enhance data analytics and measurement of campaign performance for several Elanco pet brands from available data repositories including evolving dashboard environments and brand websites.
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Watch the video: https://youtu.be/O1Z10OiMm0k
In this webinar, you will learn/see:
- Why marketers need digital dashboards - The CMO’s perspective
- How to save countless hours of putting management reports together with a marketing dashboard
- The top marketing metrics and KPIs you need to be tracking in your dashboard
- How to make a marketing dashboard project a success
- A live demo of a marketing dashboard
Key performance indicators selection and implementationRania Elsharkawy
The quality indicators are one of the effective tools that monitors the performance ; selecting the indicator then checking it's validity and reliability is very crucial in effective indicator system implementation
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
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Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
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Download the full report from here:
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
3. Introduction
The Importance of Conveying Information
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Project Management requires the accurate monitoring of several key data points and types
throughout the lifecycle of a particular project or program
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These data points need to be observed and presented in a fashion that makes their
interpretation easy to discern
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In addition to the project manager, the team members, stakeholders and project sponsor
all need to be able to get a sense of project progress in a simple and straightforward
fashion; inundating them with complex jargon or difficult to read data sets will lead to
confusion
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As such, the best strategy to utilize is to identify and leverage a few pertinent Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will properly convey information in a simple yet
effective manner to anyone wishing to interpret current project status and progress
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4. Introduction
The Need for KPIs
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KPIs provide a window not only into the current status of the project or its past
performance, but also serve as a means to detect future problems
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This ability to spot a potential problem manifesting (eg. schedule slippage) will allow the
project manager and team to address the situation ahead of time and take steps to
mitigate it accordingly
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Different KPIs can yield different insights into the project as a whole, allowing for several
views for the project manager and team
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5. What are KPIs?
Primary Definition
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To put it simply, a Key Performance Indicator is essentially a type of performance
measurement
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In essence, it is a way to evaluate the success of a particular endeavor or activity
Real World Examples
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Example 1: A simple analogy for a KPI would be something like a batting average in
baseball; higher averages denote better hitting success rates and allow teams to gauge
performance of their players
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Example 2: Another example would be a stock portfolios rate of return, which could be
demonstrated several ways including increase in monetary wealth of the account as well as
rates of return for key investments and how they performed against each other
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6. What are KPIs?
Anatomy of a KPI
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KEY = A major contributor to the success or failure of the project; a KPI is therefore ONLY a
key when it can either make or break the project
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PERFORMANCE = In essence, a metric that can be measured, quantified, adjusted, and
controlled; note that the metric MUST be controllable to improve performance
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INDICATOR = An easy to read and interpret representation of present and future
performance
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7. What are KPIs?
KPI Types
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Quantitative Indicators: A measure that can be presented numerically
Qualitative Indicators: Cannot be measured numerically
Leading Indicators: Forward looking measures that help predict future outcomes
Lagging Indicators: Provide a post hoc mechanism
Input Indicators: Measure the usage of resources used during project execution
Process Indicators: Used to measure overall efficiency
Output Indicators: Used to demonstrate the outcome or results of the process activities
Practical Indicators: Interfaces to existing company processes
Directional Indicators: Demonstrating whether organization or project is improving or not
Actionable Indicators: Those which are in control of the organization
Financial Indicators: Monetary measures
(**Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicators)
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8. What are KPIs?
KPI Project Management Examples
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There are numerous KPI types that exist within the project management space; a few key
examples would be the following:
I. Estimate to project completion
II. Number of unresolved issues
III. Current resource allocation
IV. Labor costs spent (per month)
V. Current development backlog
VI. Project schedule (Agile or Waterfall)
VII. Issues found in code review
VIII. Issues found by QA
IX. Issues found by customers
9. What are KPIs?
KPI Selection Process
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A key aspect of picking the right KPIs is to ensure you are choosing the specific ones that
are actually most pertinent to establishing project success
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Creating a KPIs ‘library’ is quite straightforward; however, ensuring you only select the
relevant KPIs is a little more challenging
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Too many KPIs will lead to confusion and could start sending false positives to the project
stakeholders, sponsor and team members; additionally, overloading the usage of KPIs will
eventually lead to the situation of ‘noise’, whereby so many factors are monitored that it
becomes a blur
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10. What are KPIs?
KPI Selection Process – S.M.A.R.T.
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A simple method on KPI selection is to leverage the ‘SMART’ technique, which can be
summarized as follows:
11. What are KPIs?
KPI Problems and Issues
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There can be several reasons why a KPI may end up being either insufficient or downright
detrimental when being used in a project. Listed below are several of the key ways that
may cause failure of the KPI to yield what it was meant to provide:
The KPI is not related or relevant to the work being performed
The rate of change in the KPI is too slow to produce a result that is actionable
Turnaround time for actions needed to correct low performing KPIs takes too long
The responses necessary or the processes needed to deal with KPIs indicating a problem
either do not exist or are woefully inadequate
The KPIs are only loosely monitored by front line managers as opposed to being shared
with the team as a whole
Too many KPIs put in place leading to confusion and ‘noise’
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12. KPI Display Types
Conveying KPIs
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The most effective way to convey a particular point in a straightforward fashion is to derive
a simple representation of what you are attempting to show
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Think of road signs: they are often very terse with minimal verbiage, often times leveraging
a particular shape or color to drive home their point
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Even when one is traveling overseas and does not understand the language of the region,
the symbolism of the signs are often so ubiquitous, that they can still provide insight into
what they are conveying even if one is not cognizant of the language; eg. Consider the
different ways that ‘stop’ are conveyed in the signs below:
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13. KPI Display Types
Conveying KPIs
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As alluded to, a KPI is meant to be an item that someone can look at quickly, at a glance,
and instantly discern its status
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In that sense, KPIs should always be kept concise and too the point; additionally, when
showing KPIs, make sure they exist in mutually distinct areas on your report so as to not
create clutter (this will be discussed further in the dashboarding section
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One important point: when performing measurements for a KPI, it is not necessary to strive
for perfection. Warren Buffett once famously said: “It is better to be approximately right
that to be precisely wrong”
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As such, focus on thinking of the KPIs as being a ‘rough guide’ rather than absolutes
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14. KPI Display Types
Widget Types
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The following slides will provide examples of some of the common widget types that can be
used to display various KPIs
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The nature and type of each widget is portable to different KPIs and the selection of which
widget to use for which KPI type is up to the discretion of the project manager
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Each widget will be accompanied by a brief description of its type and inherent display
function
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15. KPI Display Types
Standard and Stacked Histograms
Usage
Tips
Conveying total amounts in
singular or segmented (stacked)
fashion
Avoid too many data points in a
singular chart; it will make the
information harder to read
Provides visual comparisons
against totals
Use effective color schemes
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16. KPI Display Types
Pie Charts
Usage
Conveying percentage amounts
in separate ‘pieces’
Provides quick view of larger
segments versus smaller ones
Tips
Keep pie pieces separated by
spaces; it makes them easier to
view
Use effective color schemes
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17. KPI Display Types
Line Charts
Usage
Conveying aggregate data sets in
line format
Provides trending analysis of
data points
Tips
Avoid excessive use of additional
line segments; try to keep it at no
more than four segments per chart
Use effective color schemes
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18. KPI Display Types
Tabular Data
Rank
Company
Order Total
Revenue
1
ACME
$1,000,000
$100,000
2
UFP
$2,500,000
$250,000
3
Uber Comp
$1,200,000
$120,000
4
Happy Games
$600,000
$60,000
5
Wonder Comp
$4,200,000
$420,000
Usage
Conveying various key/value
pieces of data
Provides ‘hard’ values for
viewing and analysis
Tips
Try to avoid too many lines and
columns to your table; minimize
vertical and horizontal scrolling
Use effective fonts and keep them
consistent
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19. KPI Display Types
Focus Grid (Tiled Matrix)
Usage
Tips
Simplistic conveyance of certain
items
Do not overload grid with
excessive number of items
Provides simplistic
representation
Use effective color schemes
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20. KPI Display Types
Speedometer
65%
Complete
Status: Slight delay
Issues: None
Note: Follow-up with
client
Usage
Tips
Provides ‘progress to completion’
or ‘current status’ indicator
Keep concept simple and akin to
standard methodology
Gives easy to interpret
mechanism at denoting status
Use effective color schemes
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21. KPI Display Types
Radar Plot
Usage
Tips
Provides overlay and scatter
analysis of data
Avoid attempting to compare too
many series in one plot
Gives indicator on how disparate
data points correlate
Use effective color schemes
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22. KPI Display Types
Area Graph
Usage
Tips
Provides a line-based histogram
type overlay of multiple series
Avoid attempting to compare too
many series in one plot
Can be used to determine trends
and derive projections
Use effective color schemes
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23. Project Dashboards
Displaying Multiple KPIs
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Once individual KPIs are produced, they will need to be displayed in some manner that can
allow the casual observer to easily read various data points in one pass
Enter the ‘Project Dashboard’, a means by which many KPIs can be showcased in a tiled
fashion
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24. Project Dashboards
Notes on Best Practices for Dashboards
1. Try to avoid using too many KPIs on a singular dashboard; if there are many KPIs to display,
break them up into separate dashboards organized by KPI commonalities
2. Use effective spacing; try not to ‘clutter’ your dashboard with KPI charts mushed up
together too tightly
3. Keep KPI chart tiles at uniform sizes (when possible); from a viewing standpoint, it is far
easier to scan a dashboard with equally sized chart widgets than it is to try to discern a
malaise of uneven or different sized tiles
4. Leverage ‘highlighting’ when possible to bring out specific data points more easily
5. Provide ‘drill down’ or ‘tool tip’ capability if possible; this will give additional information to
the end user as they hover or click over parts of the charts
6. Have additional controls if possible; i.e. zooming, filtering, color adjustment, etc
***Note:
The following slides will provide
samples of different dashboard
and layout concepts, utilizing
both mid level and high level
KPI display items
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25. Project Dashboards
Sample Dashboard of Common Project KPIs
Project Status: Green
Key Discussion Items
•Currently performing
unit tests and
validations of primary
architecture design
concepts
•QA planning
26. Project Dashboards
Sample High Level Project Overview
Project: Manhattan
Objective
Issues/Risks
•Primary Manhattan rollout
Project Status: Green
•No current risks identified
Main Focus
Key Discussion Items
•Usability improvements and new features,
focusing on more robust client/server
architecture
65% Complete
•Currently performing unit tests and
validations of primary architecture design
concepts
Timeline
Primary Resources
Name
Role
Milestone
Start
End
GUI Developer
1. Project Charter
Mar 1
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Steve M.
CLI Developer
2. Gather Requirements
Mar 4
Mar 22
Amit K.
API Developer
3. Design Discussions
Mar 25 April 30
Jeff Wong
GUI & API Developer
4. Primary Coding
May 1
Aug 2
Melanie R.
Graphic Artist
Philip R.S.
QA Engineer
5. Testing Cycle
Aug 5
Aug 16
King Uber
Project Sponsor
6. Beta Release
Aug 19
Aug 29
Tom the Grunt
Project Manager
7. Rollout
Aug 30
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Sanjay H.
Dev Lead & DBA
Joe Smith
Mar
April
May
June
July
Aug
27. Summary
Using and Understanding KPIs
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Picking and choosing the right KPIs to display is not always a straightforward task and in
most cases will require a little trial and error
Knowing how to interpret the KPIs and ensure that actionable measures can be taken must
be adequately understood up front so as to have a means of mitigation if problems or
changes to the project occur
Displaying KPIs Effectively
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In order to properly convey KPI and pertinent project information, leverage a dashboarding
mechanism that showcases key pieces of data in easy to read tiles
Each tile ‘widget’ should be properly spaced and aligned with others in the display
Try to group similar KPIs into functional areas and separate them into different dashboards
if too many KPIs result in clutter within a singular view
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28. Summary
Conclusion
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KPIs are the mechanism by which a project manager can gauge the status of their project
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Picking the right KPIs is a group exercise and should be done with care
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Displaying KPIs should be done in an easy to interpret fashion, minimizing clutter and
‘noise’ as much as possible
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A dashboard is the most efficient way of displaying multiple KPIs in a singular view
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