15.2. What Are the Purposes and Benefits of the PBMIS?

The PBMIS is a budget, cost, and schedule data and information management and reporting system that employs an earned value technique to support project business management in monitoring and controlling portfolios, programs, and projects. The PBMIS is a decision support system that aids the EPMO and other business units in effectively guiding a portfolio, program, or project to completion. The PBMIS stores budgeted costs, estimated costs, accrued costs, actual costs, schedule, forecast, progress, and related information within one or more databases.

The project business management processes use the PBMIS to provide a single, flexible, current, integrated, and responsive data source that ...

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