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Guide_to_Dashboard_Design. 30-Days-Data-Storytelling. JuiceDashboardPoster. White Papers, Guides, and More. Excel Project Management - FREE Templates, Resources, Guides & Information. Project Management is one of my favorite topics. In my earlier job I have been part of several projects and in almost all of them, we have used Microsoft Excel heavily to perform various project management tasks.

In this page you can find some resources, help and articles on Project Management using MS Excel. Click on the links to access relevant section: Gantt Charts & Project Planning using MS Excel A Gantt Chart is a traditional way to prepare and track a project plan. Planned vs. An Example Gantt Chart: Preparing Gantt Charts in Microsoft Excel: Excel, because of its grid nature provides a great way to prepare and manage project plans.

Free Gantt Chart Templates: Project Reporting and Project Management Dashboards Reporting is one of the most important aspects of project management. How is the project going? From my project stake-holders and sponsorship team. Answering these questions will be very easy if you have prepared a good project management dashboard. Project Management Charts. 50 Best Cities for Finding a Job [Incell Dashboard using Excel. Posted on August 20th, 2009 in Charts and Graphs , Learn Excel - 7 comments We all know that incell charts are a very cool way to explore and visualize data. Personally I like them so much that I have written several tutorials on it here. Today we will see how a Job dashboard on “50 best cities for finding a job” originally prepared by Indeed job search engine can be recreated in Excel using In-cell charts.

The original dashboard looked like this: We can re-create it in Excel with the following steps. Step1 : Get the data Of course this is very simple. Step 2 : Find the symbols for Person and Employment vacancy icons This is even more simpler. Step 3 : Create the In-cell Chart All we have to do is write REPT Excel Formula. Step 4 : Add the final touches If you look at the original chart, it also has up and down arrows to show when the ranking of the city has changed compared to previous reporting period.

[Blue]"? Final In-cell Dashboard of 50 Best Cities for Finding a Job Conclusions. Excel Dashboards - Templates, Tutorials, Downloads and Examples. Dashboard reports allow managers to get high-level overview of the business. Excel is an excellent tool to make powerful dashboards that can provide analysis, insight and alert managers in timely manner. In this page (and others linked here) you can find a lot resources, templates, tutorials, downloads and examples related to creating dashboards using Microsoft Excel.

Use the below links to quickly access various sections of this page. What is a Dashboard? Dashboard reports allow managers to get high-level overview of the business and help them make quick decisions. How to Make a Dashboard? You can create dashboards using a lot of different tools. Read the following tutorials to understand how to make Excel Dashboards: Creating KPI Dashboards in Excel [6 part tutorial] In this 6 part tutorial, you will learn how to create a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Dashboard ground up using MS Excel. Customer Service Dashboard in Excel [4 part tutorial] Project Management Dashboard Dashboard Examples. Project Management Dashboard, Project Status Report using Excel - Templates and Downloads.

Posted on October 6th, 2009 in Charts and Graphs , Featured , Learn Excel - 41 comments This is the last installment of project management using excel series. Preparing & tracking a project plan using Gantt ChartsTeam To Do Lists – Project Tracking ToolsProject Status Reporting – Create a Timeline to display milestonesTime sheets and Resource managementIssue Trackers & Risk ManagementPart 6: Project Status Reporting – Project Management DashboardBonus Post: Using Burn Down Charts to Understand Project Progress Communication is a very important aspect of project management. Communicating with stakeholders, sponsors, team members and other interested parties takes up quite a bit of project manager’s time. In almost all the projects I have been part of, the first and foremost question anyone used to ask us is, “how is the project going?”. In today’s installment of project management using excel series, we will learn how to make a project management dashboard using Microsoft excel.

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