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Description

It’s been said that project management is 90 percent communication – and it can certainly feel that way when you consider all the people you have to communicate with daily. Did you know that you can use Microsoft Excel to help you communicate more effectively, define your project charter, build out the project scope, and even the work breakdown structure? You sure can!
It’s paramount that project managers work with the project team to plan and define the project scope. Then, when the team is executing the project work, the project manager needs to monitor and control the work. Part of monitoring and controlling is to record what’s happening in the project. Based on this work performance data, you’ll process the project’s successes (and possibly failures) and report to the project stakeholders accordingly.
Microsoft Excel can help you with so much of that! In this course, we’ll explore many things that Microsoft Excel can do for project management. We’ll dive into formatting, charting, conditional formatting, and building a custom dashboard and report. If you don’t have more advanced project management software, that’s okay; you can do much of that business in Microsoft Excel.
This course is worth five (5) Professional Development Units with the Project Management Institute. Take this course at your leisure, learn more about Microsoft Excel and project management, keep your PMI certification, and most importantly, manage your projects with better control and communication.
Who this course is for:
Project managers
PMPs
People learning Microsoft Excel for reporting
New and experienced project managers
Project team members responsible for reporting
Don't take this course if you're new to Excel

What you'll learn

Design reports for your stakeholders

Create a dashboard with some common project management requirements

Improve project communications with charts

Format, change, and edit charts

Apply conditional formatting to save time and automate reporting

Implement the Microsoft Excel Camera Tool

Create a speedometer chart for reporting

Claim five (5) Professional Development Units with PMI

Requirements

  • You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design experience is needed.
  • No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures
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1-Reports and Dashboards
4
1.1-Course Overview
1.2-Section Overview
1.3-Comparing Reports and Dashboards
1.4-Section Close
2-Fundamentals of Microsoft Excel for Project Management
6
2.1-Section Overview
2.2-Set the Excel Table for Project Management
2.3-Exercise: Format Cell Numbering
2.4-Create a Clean and Concise Report by Formatting Numbers
2.5-Single-Line Accounting Underline
2.6-Section Close
3-Formatting in Microsoft Excel to show Project Performance
17
3.1-Section Overview
3.2-Sparklines! Add Sparkle to your Reports and Dashboards
3.3-Adding Sparklines to a Range of Cells
3.4-Using Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel
3.5-Experimenting with Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel
3.6-Applying Top/Bottom Rules in Microsoft Excel
3.7-Exercise: Applying Top/Bottom Rules
3.8-Customize Project Reports by Utilizing Data Bars
3.9-Exercise: Experimenting with Conditional Formatting Data Bars
3.10-Exercise: Color Scales and Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel
3.11-Quickly Format Reports by Adding Icon Sets
3.12-Exercise: Conditional Format and Icon Sets in Microsoft Excel
3.13-Manipulating Icon Sets
3.14-Exercise: Customizing the Icon Set
3.15-Take Control in Microsoft Excel by Manually Applying Conditional Formatting
3.16-Exercise: Manually Create Conditional Formatting
3.17-Section Close
4-Creating Charts in Microsoft Excel for Performance Reporting
9
4.1-Section Overview
4.2-Build Your Reports and Dashboards by Building Charts
4.3-Working with Excel Charts
4.4-Exercise: Experiments with Microsoft Excel Charts
4.5-Working With Chart Series
4.6-Exercise: Working with Series in Microsoft Excel
4.7-Format and Customize Charts
4.8-Exercise: Formatting Charts in Microsoft Excel
4.9-Section Close
5-Customizing Charts in Microsoft Excel for Project Management
12
5.1-Section Overview
5.2-Working with Chart Fills and Borders
5.3-Exercise: Managing Fills and Borders in Microsoft Excel
5.4-Get Fancy! Format the Chart Background
5.5-Using Pictures as Charts
5.6-Exercise: Using Pictures in Charts
5.7-Charts Need Names - Sometimes
5.8-Working With Gantt Charts
5.9-Exercise: Creating a Microsoft Excel Gantt Chart
5.10-Configure Earned Value Management for Microsoft Excel
5.11-Building an Earned Value Management Worksheet in Microsoft Excel
5.12-Section Wrap
6-Build a Custom Dashboard and Reports in Microsoft Excel
11
6.1-Section Overview
6.2-Secret Weapon: Microsoft Excel’s Camera Feature
6.3-Vroom! Vroom! Build a Project Speedometer
6.4-Experimenting with the Microsoft Excel Camera Feature
6.5-Make it Happen: Building Dashboards and Reports
6.6-Exploring the Project Charter and Project Scope within Microsoft Excel
6.7-Creating a Risk Log for Your Project Dashboard
6.8-Exercise: Creating a Risk Log in Microsoft Excel
6.9-Section Close
6.10-Course Wrap-Up
6.11-Bonus