Fixed-Price Project Margin Protection Dashboard
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Protect fixed-price margins. Track protected vs forecast margin, leakage by driver, unapproved change and a 0–100 risk score. Excel + offline app.
What you receive
1. PMOChampion_Fixed_Price_Margin_Protection.xlsx
2. PMOChampion_Fixed_Price_Margin_App.html
3. PMOChampion_Margin_Input_Template.xlsx
4. PMOChampion_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf
Fixed-price projects rarely lose margin in one moment. It leaks away month by month: an estimate-to-complete that keeps rising, change requested but never signed, rework after a failed acceptance test, a team that is burning more hours than planned, a milestone that keeps slipping. By the time the loss appears in the financials, most of it can no longer be recovered.
The Fixed-Price Project Margin Protection Dashboard puts that leakage in front of you while there is still time to act.
It compares the margin each contract should deliver (baseline plus approved change requests) with the margin it is now forecast to deliver (adjusted revenue minus actual cost and estimate to complete). It then shows you:
• How much margin is leaking across the portfolio, and in which projects
• Why it is leaking: cost overrun / ETC growth, scope creep and unapproved change, rework, productivity loss and schedule exposure
• Which projects are Protected, Watch, At Risk or Critical, using a transparent 0–100 Margin Protection Risk Score and documented alert rules
• What to do next: a ranked list of rule-based recovery interventions with owner, due date, status and days overdue
• Cash exposure (billing and collection gaps), kept separate so it is never confused with margin leakage
You update one data sheet each reporting cycle. Every KPI, chart, alert and action list recalculates automatically. Current KPIs use only the latest snapshot of each project, so monthly history is never double-counted, and the six-month trend uses every snapshot you have saved.
The product comes as a formula-driven Excel workbook and a matching offline HTML app with identical calculations — use whichever fits your team.
