Work Performance Reports in Project Management

监视和控制是项目管理的重要组成部分，可帮助您保持项目的步伐。为此，您需要了解项目的状态和计划的进度。

比较了这两个报告后，您可以找出您的项目所在的位置以及是否有corrective action is required。

这se reports are part of work performance reports.

这project stakeholdersare always interested in work performance reports. A glance at these reports makes them aware of the project’s health.

What are Work Performance Reports?

Work performance reports organize and summarize the information collected and present it to the stakeholders. They aid in understanding the direction the project is going and how it will perform in the future.

这6^thedition of the PMBOK Guide defines performance reports as: “Work performance reports are the physical or electronic representation of work performance information intended to generate decisions, actions, or awareness.”

Work performance reports depend onwork performance data and work performance information。

工作绩效数据是项目状态的原始数据。换句话说，这是各种项目参数的当前（“截至目前”）状态，例如完成了多少工作，已经过去了多少时间以及到目前为止产生的成本。

借助工作绩效数据，您可以创建工作绩效信息。

Work performance information是您在工作绩效数据的帮助下得出的信息；例如，状态，预测要完成的估计等等。

Once you get all this information, you will compare the planned performance with the actual performance and prepare a report for management’s review. This report will also include forecasting.

Performance reports show the stakeholders the status of the project and its performance against the planned baselines.

Examples of work performance reports include status reports, progress reports, trends report, earned value report, forecasting report, variance report, etc.

In the sixth edition of the PMBOK Guide, work performance reports are an output of monitor and control project work and inputs of the following processes:

• Manage Team
• Manage Communications
• Monitor Risks
• Perform Integrated Change Control

工作绩效报告的重要性

工作绩效报告是项目经理，可以与项目利益相关者传达项目状态和进步的重要沟通工具。

Work performance reports show stakeholders how the project is going, the forecast analysis of what they should expect if the project is continued in the same way, or what additional funds, resources, or schedule extensions may be required to complete the project if there is any deviation from the baselines.

这se reports help management review the status and progress of the project and make a decision on a future course of action.

Content of Work Performance Reports

这content of performance reports include, but are not limited to:

• A percentage of the work completed during the reporting period
• 这balance of the work to be completed
• Costs incurred during the reporting period
• 可用资金的余额
• 可用时间的余额
• Significant risks that have occurred or passed without occurring
• Major remaining identified risks
• Variance analysis (schedule variance and cost variance）
• Performance indexes (schedule performance index and cost performance index）
• 这forecasted funds required to complete the remaining work (ETC）
• 完成剩余工作所需的预测时间
• A summary of major approved change requests during the reporting period.

这Format of Work Performance Reports

Work performance reports should be prepared in the format defined in the communication management plan; they can be a detailed report or just a summary.

例如，报告可以是基于文本的，表格，图形或这些组合的。

这format of the performance reports may be any combination of these formats:

• Burn Down Charts
• S-Curves
• Bar Charts
• Histograms
• 表
• Run Charts

Summary

Work performance reports have an important role in project management. These reports allow all stakeholders to be aware of project performance and keep them up to date with the project manager. You can show your stakeholders that the project is not progressing as planned and corrective action is needed. This is helpful in getting stakeholders to buy in and the project manager can complete the project with minimal obstruction.

This topic is important from a PMP exam preparation point of view. Please understand it well, as you will see a few questions from this topic on your PMP exam.

What kind of work performance reports are you using in your project? Please share your experiences through the comments section below.