Using Excel Project Plans Collaboratively...
From the Project Management 2.0 Blog
by Dave Garrett
New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave]
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Situation: You Need To Allow Team Access to Your Excel-based Project Plan.
In previous posts, I've mentioned that although PM software continues to get more and more sophisticated - a huge number of project managers use Excel or Word to manage their projects. These files are either held by the PM or zip around in email being updated by everyone on the team. Although there's a LOT to be said for version control and tracking of updates in general, the reality is that a lot of PMs manage some aspects of the projects (like reporting task status) on an honor system.
So if all of that is true for your projects, Xcellery may be something you should look at. The tool allows you to share Excel files over the web with no file locking issues. The advantage is that you have one centrally located (current version) file that everyone can access.
Posted on: April 19, 2007 01:02 PM |
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