Delayed Projects

The Number of Projects Delayed in the Current Portfolio of Projects in SmartPM. A Delayed Project is a project where the current planned completion date of the project is on a later date than the planned completion date in the projects assigned “baseline” schedule.

Projects with Low Quality Schedules

The Number of Projects with Low Quality Schedules in the Current Portfolio of Projects in SmartPM. A Low Quality Schedule is a schedule that has a C or lower “grade” as compared to the customizable DCMA driven schedule quality index set up by the user.

Projects that need New Schedules

The number of projects that need new schedules – or have not received an updated schedule since a month prior to the current date.

Projects on Track

The number of projects on track in the current portfolio of projects in SmartPM. An "on track project" is defined as a project that has a current planned completion date on a date before the planned completion date of the current projects “assigned” baseline schedule.

Project Name

Primary Scenario

The name given to the scenario that the user has set to be present on the dashboard.

Project Health

The project health metric is a gauge of overall project health taking into account the other project performance and risk metrics visible on the dashboard- including schedule quality, feasibility, progress delay and historical performance.

Schedule Performance

The Schedule Delay Section of the dashboard houses the KPI’s related to performance including Planned vs Actual, Schedule Performance Index (SPI), Critical Path Delay (if any), and Planned Future Acceleration as per the latest schedule update.

Critical Path Delay

The Critical Path Delay Metric is a calculation of total cumulative critical path delay a project has suffered, as quantified in each update period and added together over time.

Future Acceleration

The Future Acceleration Metric is a calculation of the total cumulative acceleration that has been built into the schedule through the contemporaneous project updates, as quantified in each update period and added up over time.

Schedule Quality

The Schedule Quality Grade is a gauge of the structural integrity of a project schedule, using a customized scoring model that leverages the DCMA methodology.

Schedule Compression

The Schedule Compression Index is a comparison of compression that has been built into a schedule at a given point in time – as compared to the original baseline schedule

Forecasted Completion

The forecasted completion date is SmartPM's estimated completion date if your performance continues as is. SmartPM looks at performance, compression, and delays, in order to determine how far off your current scheduled completion date.
This should be seen as a metric to help you determine if your schedule is overly aggressive or if you have feasible recovery (acceleration) plans in place to get your end date inline with your current scheduled end date.

Data Dates

Current Data Date- the date for which the most recent schedule update has been entered into the system. SmartPM analyzes schedules from the beginning of the job, or the baseline schedule, all the way through the most recent update. This is representative of the updated data date in a schedule file. In this case we're updating the status midway through a project. And the file’s data date is November 30 2015.

Baseline End-Date is the first schedule entered into the program. And this is the end-date for that baseline schedule. with every new project or scenario, there needs to be a new baseline. The baseline end-date is what we're tracking here. The scenario example here includes all of the original schedules, and we see the end-date, was March 16 2016.

Current End-Date is the end-date based off the most recent schedule with a data date. SmartPM compares the baseline schedule end-date to the end-date for the most recent update, which in this case is November 30 2015.