Comments on: Issue Trackers & Risk Management using Excel [Project Management using Excel - Part 5 of 6]

By: schlossBlog » #314 VisualPM: Dashboards im PM

schlossBlog » #314 VisualPM: Dashboards im PM — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:50:58 +0000

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By: Manoso

Manoso — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:56 +0000

Great!!!! Thank you very much! The only thing I cant figure out is how to redirect the chart to take input from the second Issue Log?

Thank you!

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:30:44 +0000

Thank you SO much Chandoo… that worked perfectly! I really appreciate the quick response.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:11:05 +0000

@Allie… you can easily remove these by selecting the cells and then going to “Data validation” dialog. There in the 2nd tab, remove the message (or change it to the one you prefer)

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0000

PLEASE help me, sir. I love your project tracker and downloaded it to help me with a project at work.

However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove the special comments on the sheet.

For example, they say “Team Member Who Opened the Issue” and “Team Member Who Closed the Issue”.

Note that these are not normal cell comments.

Can you help? Or anyone?

Please! Thank you so much for your time.

By: Stray__Cat

Stray__Cat — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:29:32 +0000

If you have to keep track of the history of the topic (opened, passed to X, fixed,closed, reopened etc., how would you manage it in a clear way? A row for each event would look quite messy, IMHO. A bit of VBA, maybe?

Thanks!

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:12:41 +0000

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:07:02 +0000

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:14:58 +0000

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By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:05:59 +0000

@Peter… welcome Yes, filters, conditional formatting, pivot tables are tools, but we can do wonderful things when we put them together with a little bit of glue.

@Mathias: I think lot of times companies waste time and money on making things complex. As you say, for most scenarios a simple excel sheet would suffice. Have you seen the netflix’s presentation on organization culture and processes ? http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 It gives great insight in to how amazing companies can be built by keeping things simple.

Thanks for the reference to Joel’s article btw. I am a huge fan of Joel’s philosophy of software development.

I havent tried fogbugz though, but I heard lots of good things about it.

@Brian: “Still better to use excel and have good information than junk information in good software.” totally agree. It is not the system that matters, but what information and insight it is able to provide for better project management that matters.

@Tim: Good ideas. I am going to consider all these for the next installment of this series where we discuss project status dashboard.