The average of % completion of each project of the program by itself don’t make much sense to me since projects have different size and impact in the program. Your experience and best practice, please? Saving Changes...
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Deepa KalangiManager, Program Management, Author, Trainer| CVS HealthCharlotte, NC, United States
Yes, I agree and when you are managing a program, you are always revisiting what has been done and what is going behind(project level) and you would have to reprioritize based on many factors as the projects are in execution. Often times, there will be competing priorities and that point, you projects that have the highest priority( impact) will take precedence over others. I would do that, especially in a shared team environment. Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I think you need to use more than % completion to measure a program's progress and health. EVM is a great way to provide you with indices that are independent of project size. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Agree with Stéphane here. Simply providing a percent complete is an incomplete status. Provide additional context with EVM or a Burndown type comparative to the baseline Saving Changes...
EVM or some other form of value tracking relative to your cost & schedule constraints is an objective way of assessing health vs. the subjective and hard to interpret nature of % complete or RYG reporting.
At a bare minimum, have a list of the key outcomes expected by the program and provide updates on which ones are completed and which are left (true 0/100 type reporting).
EVM can apply at any "level" of the portfolio-program-project hierarchy in terms of point-in-time calculations. Instead of calculating a project's EV, you calculate the EV at the program level as an aggregate of the EV's from each project plus anything delivered of accruable value at the program level. Same idea for AC and PV.
Of course, this does require a cost/work reporting system capable of reporting cross-projects and rolling that data up without the need for significant manual intervention.
