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Searching for individual projects requires you to find the project through the project tab by searching the project's name or number. Once at the project's page, the desired information must be searched for in the project's modules. This can take between 1-1.5 minutes. A report can be found from the report tab through a simple process which takes between 11-15 seconds, and immediately shows all the desired information pulled by the report on multiple projects relating to the criteria of the report. Because reports compile all the desired information in one place, using one will always be faster than finding the same information for multiple projects in each project's page individually.
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This table shows a hypothetical amount of time spent per year looking up the data in five reports weekly. This table assumes that 100 people are accessing the data on from five projects shown in these five reports every week, and that they each work 44 weeks out of the year. Based on this, nearly 64 person days worth of time are spent looking up this information throughout the year. Using reports, the same data could be found throughout the year in 2 person days worth of time throughout the year.
Time Saved in Dollars
Using an estimated blended wage for program and project managers, the cost of the time spent accessing information was converted into dollars using the hypothetical amount of time.
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