But with a good project management template for Excel even adding dependencies becomes possible (my Excel Gantt Scheduler supports dependencies). There is no out-of-the-box way for creating dependencies between tasks. Sure, there are limitations to using Excel for project management. Therefore I’m able to review my task lists and schedules conveniently from my PC and from any location – from the train, on the bus or on the airplane. We need to do all those things – organizing information, mathematics, data visualization – and this is exactly what Excel does better than any other tool!Īnother reason why I keep using Excel for managing projects is that I can do my work offline. We need to generate visual graphs for those numbers so that we can share financial data in an executive-friendly format. We also heavily work with numbers, whether it’s when planning out the project budget or for benchmarking our projects against others. We need to track dates and tasks on a detailed level. A major part of our job as Project Managers is to organize information: We need to break down large complex activities into smaller achievable steps.
