P6-Reporter/EP-datawarehouse – Project Team Self-Serve Dashboard Reports

Project issues can be very disruptive and expensive. In executing projects, issues can (and most often do) arise at various points. Having a good set of project control procedures and monitoring what processes are in place enables your team to identify issues and act quickly. Meanwhile, creating mitigation plans based on current, correct information is a must. Making decisions based on old data will not set your project and team up for success, and having your team endure long wait times to retrieve, assemble, and analyze current project information when you’re waiting for decisions to be made is not an effective approach either.

If your team’s struggling with time-consuming manual updates, there are tools that can help you automate the process. Emerald’s P6-Loader allows you to use Excel-based update sheets to load updates into your progress file. Another one of our tools, TAPS, facilitates updating P6 using activity barcodes (TAPS Classic) or process updates using TAPS Mobile from your phone. These tools make it quick and painless to get accurate updates into your P6 files. Your team will then have more time for analyzing your schedule instead of wasting time with tedious updating.

Is your project in execution? Do you have the updates in your P6 project for this update timeframe? The project is rescheduled, levelled and the analysis has been completed. To provide current information for your project team, a myriad of printed reports are not required. By using EP-datawarehouse snapshots, you can automatically have a snapshot of your P6 project created. The new snapshot information feeds into P6-Reporter self-serve dashboards where the report information is automatically updated. Your entire project team has the most current information available in an easy to digest format in self-serve dashboards.



Above: P6-Reporter, Project Details – Activities (Tableau) Report – updated using EP-datawarehouse snapshot information. At the project level, easily identify early, on time, and late activities at a summary and in detail (variances are included). Activities starting during the upcoming month and
finishing during the upcoming month are also displayed.



Sample P6-Reporter, Green Up Reports (Tableau). No boardroom wall or manual updating required.



Sample P6-Reporter, Cancelled Work Hours by Resource Report (Power BI). This is a report I have produced manually and utilized on a P6-Reporter dashboard. Dashboard access saved time and provided the information to all team members who required it without sending out .pdf copies. They can just access their dashboard to use the available information.



Sample P6-Reporter, Sample Management Dashboard (Power BI). Food for thought: does your team have access to the information they require quickly, in an easy to digest format to support addressing any issues in a timely fashion?



Sample P6-Reporter, Pipeline Dashboard (Power BI) Although the project information displayed is specifically demo pipeline project information, dashboard specifics can be designed for any project type.

A very valuable opportunity exists to provide self-serve dashboards for your project team. Take advantage of streamlining your project reporting and provide current information in an easy to digest format. Utilize P6-Reporter and EP-datawarehouse to automatically store snapshots after each project update. The snapshots update the dashboard reports giving everyone on your team the information they need quickly and easily. No matter the type of project, P6-Reporter dashboards are a valuable tool. Current information in an easy to digest format, ready at your fingertips is a great addition to any project.