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CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS SURVEY

Critical Factor #1: Organization Abilities
The ability to customize a Gantt Chart

You have had to customize a project's Gantt Chart more or less in some degree.

How important is the ability to tailor a Gantt Chart such that it displays the information your audience is looking for?

Customized Gantt Charts are distributed at meetings or other settings inside or outside my organization.

Customizing a Gantt Chart and printing it out enhances communication in that the receiver can have the information he/she desires at his/her fingertips.

 

Critical Factor #2: Project Manager Abilities
The ability to create a custom report in Microsoft Project

Predefined reports in Microsoft Project do not necessarily contain the information I'm seeking to satisfy my reporting requirements.

When providing a report to upper management, it is paramount that the report addresses their information needs.

A predefined report in Microsoft Project generally works, but several elements often need to be modified or eliminated.

How often has reporting requirements necessitated a report that does not have a template in Microsoft Project?

 

Critical Factor #3: Software and Organization Abilities
Dissemination: How to disseminate, distribute, and store project information

There are times where data in Microsoft Project need to be analyzed in a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.

How important would you say it is to have the capability to analyze Microsoft Project data in an Excel pivot table?

On occasion, there has been a request to analyze voluminous cost data and subsequently provide a report on that analysis.

You are required to produce reports that are aesthetically pleasing.

 

Critical Factor #4: Training Outcomes Expectations
Understanding periodic reports, including its purpose, benefits, types, distribution frequency, and planning.

Distributing weekly and monthly periodic reports keep upper management and other stakeholders abreast of the project status.

Periodic reports for your projects are generally produced on a weekly basis with some exceptions.

You meet with those whom a periodic report will be prepared for to understand their information needs.

Periodic reports come in various types. It is important that the correct report type is distributed to the receiver.

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