PM Insights Sunnyvale
Why Project Managers Can’t Do Without Excel
Description:
Project Managers are often distraught with Project Management tools. Familiarity, vendor preference, ease of use, feature richness, scalability, cost and many other factors play a role in the choice of a tool. When it comes to product releases or quality assessment, many big companies prefer to make their own.
There is no perfect tool, but what's the best way to get started quickly, yet meet the needs of a feet-on-the-street Project Manager? Well, it may be surprising that out-of-the-box Excel can work wonders.
Back to the future? Perhaps. It is said Excel is the world's most commonly used "programming language". Let's see how we can make simple, scalable spreadsheets that meet many of your project management needs.agement needs.
Takeaways:
- Spreadsheets and data visualization must meet the following characteristics
- Functionality and Correctness
- Usability
- Scalability and Hooks for Automation
- Debuggability
- Define your use cases. What does the team want to see? What does Management need?
- Map the data types that support your use cases
- There are many powerful functions in Excel that support all data management for a PM
- With a little help from formulae, Excel can rival the power of RALLY, JIRA and even MS Project
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About the Instructor: Sutanu Ghosh
Sutanu Ghosh, PMP, PMI-ACP, MCTS, has served as a PMO as well as a hands-on PM at many distinguished institutions in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, including Bay Networks, Symbol, Lockheed Martin, NetApp and VMware.
He has a passion for “Lean” which led to his 6 Sigma certification.
He has been teaching MS Project for all the PMI-SV and PMI SFBAC for over 7 years.
He has a MS in Engineering from AZ State University, Tempe and is widely published on CAX Tools
Meeting Leader: Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
PDU Info: 2.0 - Category A
Program Agenda:
5:30 PM - Sign In and Networking
6:15 PM - Featured Speaker
8:30 PM - Meeting Adjourn
Food: Complimentary snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Full-time Student: $5 (online only; contact Meeting Leader for the discount code. Please bring Student ID card to the event)
At-the-Door Registration
A limited number of registrations can be accepted at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Once this limit has been reached, the event will be closed to additional attendees.
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $20
Non-Members: $30
(Only Check or Cash accepted; make checks payable to "PMI Silicon Valley")
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.