Question

Joel often talks about using MS Excel for lightweight project management, but I’m curious about actual implementations of this idea. I’ve seen some templates that seem to clone MS Project via macros, which would be overkill for a lightweight project. Anyone have any useful templates?

Answer 1

try

    feature    task       estimated hours actual hours current %     ---------- ---------- --------------- ------------ ---------

if estimated hours times current % is greater than actual hours, you are behind schedule

update the actual hours and current % on a daily basis

see also joel’s old excel template