SSI Project Performance Analytics

Overview

The industry has established certain high value indicators which compare actual performance against an original baseline plan and “snapshots” of the schedule taken before reporting intervals.  Structured Solutions creates robust performance and variance analysis reports by inspecting project conditions and providing underlying raw performance data in a format accessible to the analyst.

    Overview

    The industry has established certain high value indicators which compare actual performance against an original baseline plan and “snapshots” of the schedule taken before reporting intervals.  Structured Solutions creates robust performance and variance analysis reports by inspecting project conditions and providing underlying raw performance data in a format accessible to the analyst. 

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      Includes standard reports comparing Actual Performance to Baseline with industry recognized indices such as Baseline Execution Index (BEI), Current Execution Index (CEI), Schedule Performance Index (SPI) Variance Analysis Reporting (VAR).

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      Tailor your own reporting using raw data from an Excel Worksheet.

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      Refresh standard and user defined reports whenever project data changes.

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      The toolbox is a collection of useful time saving features anyone who works with Microsoft Project will want. Features such as: Adding common predecessors or successors to selected tasks, adding common prefixes or suffixes to text data, replacing text with different values, making text proper case, etc.

      Schedule Sanitizer

      The SSI Schedule Sanitizer is a tool built to help users remove nonessential/unnecessary, and/or proprietary data from a Microsoft Project schedule file prior to sending it to an outside organization. Every organization should require Project Schedulers to, at a minimum, remove any proprietary information from a Project file prior to transferring the file to an outside entity. The SSI Schedule Sanitizer makes the process of removing this data quick and easy. The tool allows users to save and distribute sanitization configurations which can be easily applied at any time.

      Copy/Paste Assignments

      The SSI Copy/Paste Assignments tool enables users to easily copy assignments from one task and paste them to any number of other tasks. Pasting assignments will assign the same resources and remaining work/cost values of the copied task to all selected tasks.

      Exporting Tools

      The Exporting Tools are built to export data from Microsoft Project schedules into formats readable by other external tools or schedule deliverables

      SSI QBD Tool

      Quantifiable Backup Data (QBD) is often required on schedules adhering to Earned Value requirements on any tasks that have long baseline durations. Tracking and managing QBD on each task can be quite the hassle, and auditors often want to see a task's accompanying QBD. With the SSI QBD Tools, you will be able to assign, track, and status QBD steps with just a few clicks.

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      Copy/Paste Tasks

      Why are these buttons here and why would someone use them to copy/paste task rows rather than the standard windows copy/paste functions they have become accustomed to? Interestingly, copying and pasting tasks within a project that is saved on a Project Server or Project Online database can cause file corruption issues. To quote this article, "Over time, enterprise projects can become corrupted in either Project Online or Project Server. Although no one knows every cause of project corruption, one of the primary causes has been the process of cutting/copying and pasting entire task rows in the Microsoft Project schedule.".

      When an entire task row is cut/copied, all of its Enterprise Custom Field values are also copied. When a paste occurs, the Project Server/Project Online database can mess up how it stores Enterprise Custom Fields for the project, leading to file corruption.

      In order to circumvent this issue and help Microsoft Project users who are connected to PWA avoid file corruption, Structured Solutions has created our own Copy/Paste tools. These buttons will allow users to still be able to copy/paste entire task rows without any of the file corruption risk.

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