A Stage Gate is essentially a status meeting that the project manager organizes to provide status to sponsors and key stakeholders. The idea of the meeting is to decide if the project should move forward. To make the decision, sponsors and key stakeholders need Earned Value Management (EVM) and KPI information. Your job is to make a PPT detailing the status of your project "as if" you are presenting it to decision makers. They will need to know (easily and quickly) using data visualization graphs where the project is with respect to schedule, cost, and scope.

This report should include the following:

1. Earned Value Management (EVM) values and/or graphs; (Tell me if your project is on time, for example and how you know)
2. Threshold status indicators (e.g. red, yellow, green) and the definition of each;
3. Key performance measures for this "stage" of the decision-making process. (What aspects of scope (using KPI's) can you document? Think quality and resources as connected to business value).

Project Given: The medical center has five floors. The first floor houses the emergency services, surgical suites, and basic hospital administration. The second floor houses several medical specialty clinics and doctors' offices. The third, fourth, and fifth floors contain a combination of patient rooms and medical specialty clinics and doctors' offices. There are other, smaller buildings surrounding the hospital that make up the medical center complex. For the purposes of this project, you will be upgrading the patient care nursing computers for hospital in-patient wards on the third, fourth, and fifth floors. This is considered Phase 1 of an on-going project that will see all nursing computers upgraded over the next year. Phase 1 is expected to last 6 months. The budget for the project is $500,000 and is intended to cover hardware and personnel costs.