• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Project Management Knowledge

Simply explained by a PMI-certified Project Manager

  • Home
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Definitions
  • About the Author
  • Deutsch
  • Show Search
Hide Search
You are here: Home / Definitions / R / Reporting Systems

Reporting Systems

Reporting of information is a critical process in any organization. Information is used to let stakeholders know about the status of the project. They also use it to make good decision Project management reporting is complicated and it often involves multistage activities. The activities that are involved in management reporting include general documentation, financial control, business presentations and email communications. The project managers need to treat the information as harvestable data which can be summarized and interpreted using reporting systems.

Reporting systems are defined as processes, procedures, and facilities that are used to generate and gather reports using one or more information management systems. This particular project management system is also responsible for the distribution of report to the stakeholders of the project.

The organization should invest in peripherals that can support the collection and distribution of information and these include IT infrastructure and even shared storage environment.

An efficient reporting system is crucial for the execution of project activities. The thing is that unless the organization uses an appropriate reporting system, the project team and other people concerned with the project will not be able to know the complete details of the project.

 

This term is defined in the 5th edition of the PMBOK.

Related Articles:

 
  • Project Execution Outputs – Work Performance Information  Project management really boils down to planning and execution. Work performance information plays a critical role in the latter....
  •  
  • Payment Systems  Payment systems are part of the Control Procurement process in project management. As part of the bigger process that involves...
  •  
  • Information Management Systems  Managing information, in project management, is all about planning and organizing to complete the information goals of the organization. The...
  •  
  • Performance Reporting  Effectively managing a project is a many layered process and effort, and there are a number of components that need...
  •  
  • Types of Performance Reporting  Performance reporting can take place as part of any project management process group. But it is most commonly associated with...
  • Primary Sidebar

    Dear Visitor, I am a PMP (Project Management Professional), certified by the Project Management Institute since 2004. I have been managing dozens of projects, small and huge, successful and unsuccessful. This site is supposed to help you learn the required vocabulary of the project management world. Please feel free to check my certification status or to learn more about me.

    Copyright © 2021

    • Privacy Policy