Building a Project Dashboard on a Small Budget Using Adobe Dreamweaver

Even though Concepts, Inc. (name changed) has a small employee base, it has a large international outreach, with partners spread across the world. Like other companies struggling financially, Concepts has been forced to virtually eliminate budgets for project information tools, file management tools, and communication tools. As a result, key decision makers have been left making uninformed decision about projects because they did not know important information, such as project constraints, issues, risks, key team members, and project priorities. To alleviate this problem, using Dreamweaver CS4, Concepts project managers created an executive dashboard, a project-detail dashboard, and a project summary report that allow unencumbered project updating and easy dashboard maintenance, all with very little cost.

 Creating a Project Dashboard with Adobe Dreamweaver:

1. Create the project inventory with relevant 1. stakeholders.
2. Verify the information. 
3. Publish the information to an HTML table or XML file.
4. Use Spry to create the project dashboard.
5. Obtain buy-off, and keep the project information current.

Creating the Project Inventory

Whether, like Concepts, you are starting with a minimal budget for a project dashboard or with a larger budget, your first task will be to create and verify the project …