A manufacturing program with eight interdependent projects is generating inconsistent cost and schedule metrics because each project uses a different software platform and data taxonomy. Senior executives have asked for a single source of truth that gives them real-time visibility across the program. As program manager, which action best addresses this request while aligning with program-governance expectations?
Issue a common reporting template but allow each project to continue using its own software with no data integration
Implement a program management information system that integrates all project tools, applies shared data standards, and generates consolidated dashboards for stakeholders
Hold a standing status meeting where project managers verbally reconcile their metrics each reporting cycle
Assign a dedicated analyst to collect status updates by email and compile a monthly spreadsheet dashboard
Deploying a program management information system (PMIS) that integrates the existing project tools, enforces common data standards, and produces automated dashboards provides a reliable, repeatable reporting mechanism. It removes the root cause of inconsistencies-disparate systems and definitions-while meeting governance requirements for timely, auditable information. The manual spreadsheet approach is labor-intensive and prone to error; verbal reconciliation creates no durable record; and a template without integration leaves projects working from different datasets, so discrepancies would continue.
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