All Things Reporting
Cadence Calendar
Money, Money, Money
Things that often get overlooked
100

The  indicator that sums up Schedule, Scope and Budget

What is an Overall Status?

100

Day status reports are sent to PMs

What is Xog Out

100

Actual + Commited + ETC

What is EAC?

100

Percentage field that is often missed

What is a scope %?

200

This is an item required when a project has passed it's planned end date and still in execution

What is an CR Schedule extension?

200

When a project status can not be changed (xog in to report publication)

What is a freeze period?

200

Occasionally, you will need to transfer costs between project codes. This will happen whenever the project has resources whose time is split across multiple codes

What is Journal Voucher/Transfer?

200

Circumstance that is impacting schedule/scope/budget

What is an issue? 

300

When a project has a red overall indicator; or yellow overall indicator and red risk &/or budget

What is an At Risk project?

300

April 1st of each year

What is the start of Financial Period 1?

300

A document that executives and leadership reviews a set of projects brought forward for funding for next fiscal

What is IMITS Capital Plan?

300

When a project requires something from another project to proceed (or vice versa)

What is a dependency?

400

Within the status report, these are flagged areas of concern that may impact a project

What is a Risk Indicator, Executive Summary and Top Risk section?

400

How long a project has from PID release to hire a PM, kick off and begin reporting

What is 1 month from PID release?

400

Where you can find the approved released PID amount in PPM

What is Funding Split Original

400

Milestones planned date has passed and there's no actual date.

What is an incomplete Milestone date? (reach out to the PM and put in revised or actual date)

500

Fields in the PDF status report that can impact xog in - essentially break Ahsan's algorithm

What are drop down menus/date boxes?

500

The amount of time after Analyst validation to remediate data set

What is the end of the day?

500

CAPEX Budget minus CAPEX EAC

What is a CAPEX Variance?

500

Field that often gets missed at the beginning of a status report

What is project end date and project phase?

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