Excel Project Management Template is a project management software developed by Business Spreadsheets. The software provides template for projects documented on a spreadsheet. It offers automated processing of crucial data and resources such as schedule, collaborative tools and reports. Users are given tools like visual graphs, prioritization of productivity, Gantt charts, participant file generation, Earned Value Analysis, and automatic report importing. They can forecast the project budget to secure funds. Every phase is trackable by everybody with project phase and task text content. Its schedule calculation and project schedule offer accurate time projection. The optimized project schedule is created automatically by taking into account participant availability with other task commitments, dependencies and specified timing preferences. Everyone involved with the project can be distributed with their copies of workbooks, email documents and Gantt charts. Any new milestone can be automatically imported to the software via checks. Users can also try the one-time paid version for unlimited free upgrades, single or multiple user access and template protection passwords.
Pros
Generic and cross platform project management solution.
Plan projects easily by automating every steps
Have a documentation of plans and phases
Comes with several tools for tracking progress
Allow viewing of progress to everyone involved
Cons
Requires Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.
Encryption, customizing and distribution features available at paid version
Cannot share template to non-personnel
Can be overwhelming for startup companies
Only a template and not a documentation or spreadsheet maker
An Excel project management template with automation for scheduling, collaborative tools and status reporting.
The Excel Project Management Template is designed as a generic solution to plan and manage any project. Building the budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation and funding. Progress can be monitored from automatic creation and updating from remote participant workbooks. Project performance can be monitored with best practice Earned Value Analysis throughout the complete project life cycle.
Ability to define project budget as tasks are defined, Predefine project phases, task titles, holidays, and other key project parameters, Creation of task dependencies and timing constraints, Auto-timing function calculates optimal project schedule automatically, Gantt scheduling chart with embedded task information, Project status reporting based on best-practice Earned Value Analysis and Emailing of participant task lists and creation of individual participant workbooks to enable updating of task progress from remote files.
The Excel project management template is designed as a generic solution for both novice and experienced project managers requiring a simple but comprehensive tool for planning and managing projects.
The Excel project management template provides all core requirements for planning and managing a project in a light weight, simple and easy to use application. The template runs on all versions of Excel for Windows as well as Excel for Mac 2011 and 2004 making it a cross platform project management solution.
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