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Monthly Highlight Report

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HIGHLIGHT REPORT


Project Name	p2msp Sample Project.mpp

Release:	Final
Date:	4th April 2006

Author:	Susan Smith
Company:	XYZ Corporation

Period From:	01/03/2006
Period To:	31/03/2006

Project Subject:	Revised Corporate Strategy

Project Category:

Project Comments:	Project Actuals updated to 31/03/2006

Document History

Document:		This document is only valid on the day it was printed.
Location:

Revision History

Revision Date	Previous Revision Date		Summary of Changes			Changes Marked






Distribution		This document has been distributed to:

Name		Title		Date of Issue	Version

Highlight Report

Purpose of Document

To provide the Project Board with a summary of the stage status at intervals defined by them.

Project status summary

Dates.

Start:	Mon 16/01/06	Finish:	Tue 08/08/06
Baseline Start:	Mon 16/01/06	Baseline Finish:	Thu 06/07/06
Actual Start:	Mon 16/01/06	Actual Finish:	NA
Start Variance:	0 days	Finish Variance:	23 days

Duration.

Scheduled:	147 days?	Remaining:	94.83 days?
Baseline:	124 days?	Actual:	52.17 days
Variance:	23 days?	Percent Complete:	35%

Work.

Scheduled:	4,048 hrs	Remaining:	2,520 hrs
Baseline:	3,664 hrs	Actual:	1,528 hrs
Variance:	384 hrs	Percent Complete:	35%

Costs.

Scheduled:	242,950.00	Remaining:	141,270.00
Baseline:	242,700.00	Actual:	101,680.00
Variance:	250.00

Earned Value.

Planned Value:	104,458.06	Schedule Variance:	-16,798.36
Earned Value:	87,659.71	Schedule Variance %:	-16%
Actual Cost:	101,026.27	Schedule Performance Index	0.84
Budget at Completion:	242,700.00	Cost Variance:	-13,366.56
Estimate at Completion:	279,707.48	Cost Variance %:	-15%
Variance at Completion:	-37,007.48	Cost Performance Index:	0.87
To Complete Performance Index:			1.09

Delivery Progress This Period.

Products Started.

ID	Name	Purpose	Start Date	End Date	% Complete
None

Products In-Progress.

ID	Name	Purpose	Start Date	End Date	% Complete
3.1	Environment Analysis	To establish a view of the important external (and possibly internal) developments taking place around the organisation, including an understanding of why these are strategically significant. To develop an understanding of market opportunities which can be built on and threats which must be overcome or circumvented. To provide, in combination with analysis of the organisation's resource base, key information for strategic choice in the Decision Stage.	Tue 21/02/06	Fri 21/04/06	66%
3.2	Resource & Capability Analysis	To understand the organisation's strategic capability through analysis of resources. To ensure that strategic options can later be evaluated against realistic and feasible capabilities.	Tue 21/02/06	Wed 17/05/06	47%
3.3	Stakeholder & Cultural Analysis	To understand how the organisational culture will influence strategic choice To understand the expectations and conflicting interests of key stakeholders To assess the bases and configurations of power impacting the organisation To enable barriers and opponents of changes to be identified as a guide to evaluating strategic options.	Tue 21/02/06	Mon 24/04/06	64%

Products Completed.

ID	Name	Purpose	Start Date	End Date
None

Delivery Plans Next Period

Products Planned to start.

ID	Name	Purpose	Start Date	End Date
None

Products Planned to continue work on.

Name

Purpose

Start Date

End Date

3.2

Resource & Capability Analysis

To understand the organisation's strategic capability through analysis of resources.
To ensure that strategic options can later be evaluated against realistic and feasible capabilities.

Tue 21/02/06

Wed 17/05/06

Products Planned to Complete.

ID	Name	Purpose	Start Date	End Date
3.1	Environment Analysis	To establish a view of the important external (and possibly internal) developments taking place around the organisation, including an understanding of why these are strategically significant. To develop an understanding of market opportunities which can be built on and threats which must be overcome or circumvented. To provide, in combination with analysis of the organisation's resource base, key information for strategic choice in the Decision Stage.	Tue 21/02/06	Fri 21/04/06
3.3	Stakeholder & Cultural Analysis	To understand how the organisational culture will influence strategic choice To understand the expectations and conflicting interests of key stakeholders To assess the bases and configurations of power impacting the organisation To enable barriers and opponents of changes to be identified as a guide to evaluating strategic options.	Tue 21/02/06	Mon 24/04/06

Project Risks.

Risk Movements Summary.

Risks	Open	Closed	Total
Brought Forward	15	0	15
New Risks Raised This Period	1		1
New Risks Closed This Period	(0)	0
Existing Risks Closed This Period	(1)	1
Carried Forward	15	1	16

New Risks raised in this period.

Id	Name	Expected Loss	Raised By	Date Raised	Category	Event %	Impact %	Status
16	Project Team personnel		Susan Smith - Marketing Director	20/03/2006	Organisational Management/Human Factors	50%	100%	Active

Risks Closed in this period.

Id	Name	Expected Loss	Raised By	Date Raised	Category	Event %	Impact %	Status	Closed
1	Project Management processes are not established and familiar		Susan Smith - Marketing Director	06/02/2006	Project Team Capability	70%	100%	Closed (Disappeared)	20/03/2006

Project Issues.

Issue Movements Summary.

Issues	Open	Closed	Total
Brought Forward	1	3	4
New Issues Raised This Period	8		8
New Issues Closed This Period	(3)	3
Existing Issues Closed This Period	(1)	1
Carried Forward	5	7	12

New Issues raised in this period.

The following new issues were raised and remained open at the end of this period.

Id	Name	Priority	Raised By	Date Raised	Type	Impact	Status
6	Problems in South American SBUs	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	13/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Inactive
8	Delays in supply of external marketing info.	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	14/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Inactive
10	Ellen Eastman sick leave	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	18/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Inactive
11	Finance data incorrect	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	22/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Inactive
12	Project X	1 - Must Have	Susan Smith - Marketing Director	27/03/2006	Request for Change	Medium	Inactive

The following new issues were raised and closed in this period.

Id	Name	Priority	Raised By	Date Raised	Type	Impact	Status	Closed
5	Business Continuity programme	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	06/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Closed (Answered)	17/03/2006
7	Rework from revised outlooks	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	14/03/2006	Off-Specification	Medium	Closed (Implemented)	17/03/2006
9	Need to be added to pressbox clippings updates	3 - Nice not Vital	Andy Allen - Team Leader	17/03/2006	Issue	Medium	Closed (Answered)	24/03/2006

Outstanding Issues closed in this period.

The following issues from prior periods were closed in this period;

Id	Name	Priority	Raised By	Date Raised	Type	Impact	Status	Closed
4	Change of ownership in Marine SBU	2 - Important	Andy Allen - Team Leader	27/02/2006	Issue	Low	Closed (Implemented)	10/03/2006

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