Work performance data, Work performance information and Work performance reports

Let us understand the three project documents namely Work performance data, Work performance information and Work performance reports.

Work performance data is the raw date which is being collected as part of measurements. Data is the output of executing. For example Planned Value, Earned Value and Actual Cost are Work performance data.

Work performance information is the processed data which will be the output of every control processes like control schedule, control cost, etc...For example Schedule Variance, Cost Variance are the Work performance information.

Work performance reports is the report which is used for project communication to stakeholders. The stakeholders are interested in reports and not the data. For example dashboard which indicates the status like Red, Green, Amber are the Work performance reports.

This concept has been introduced from Data-Information-Konwledge-Wisdom (DIKW) model. This is part of ITIL(Information technology Infrastructure Library)syllabus.