Project Management in Excel Microsoft Excel is the most used project management tool, though there are specialist applications available such as Microsoft Project. The key reasons, in my humble opinion, are • Ability to adapt: It’s easy to add more features to an Excel workbook and customize it to suit our unique project management needs. • Easy to Use: Building sophisticated Excel workbooks is not easy, but using well developed workbooks is very easy. If we become familiar with basic Excel operations such as.
Formatting, printing, filtering and sorting, we can become very effective very quickly. () • Easy to Share: It’s easy to share the files with team members as Excel is installed in computers in almost every company. Excel Project Management Templates The Excel templates from indzara.com are built with the principles of simplicity and effectiveness.
In this article, you’ll find the top project management Excel templates that you can download for free. We've detailed the different types of templates and when you should use each one, and then show you how to create a project management dashboard in Excel from scratch.
They are designed to be easy to use but they don’t lack in functionality. Here is just a couple of examples.
Our Project Planner and Project Manager templates use Automatic Scheduling where tasks are automatically scheduled in our project plan. Our Calendar Maker and Task Manager templates can handle recurring (monthly, weekly, 4th Friday of a month, etc.) events and tasks and automatically create those events/tasks for us. These tools help us save time, save money and be more organized & efficient. Free and Premium Excel Project Management Templates The following is the list of Excel Templates currently available.
More are being added regularly. You can use the links to visit the individual template pages and learn more about them. Each template has video demos () and detailed documentation. I have also provided a brief overview of each of them further down below in this page.
• • • • • • • • • • • If you don’t find a specific template, please with specific requirements or leave a comment in the comment section below. I will add to my product road map to publish. FREE PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXCEL TEMPLATES PROJECT PLANNER (BASIC) EXCEL TEMPLATE Project Planner – Excel Template – Project Completion Chart The purpose of the template is • To know if and when projects will complete given each project’s tasks, task duration, resource availability and project priority. • If you have any due dates for projects, the template can determine if project will complete by due date.
• To understand resource utilization and identify opportunities for re-assignment to improve project completions. • To determine how many hours of work are still pending after the planning period is over, so that you can request more resources. • To prepare printable project schedule (Gantt chart) and resource schedule. PROJECT PIPELINE TRACKER EXCEL TEMPLATE Project Pipeline – Active Pipeline This Excel template allows tracking projects and calculating effectiveness in completing them. This is applicable for scenarios where all the projects go through the same set of pre-defined stages in sequence.