Project Tracking Template Excel | Free Multiple Project Task Tracker

A project tracking is methodical tool used to frequently monitoring activities of a project to ensure the project tasks are going ahead as per plans. Normally businesses are using this tools to ensure the project status, and to convince sponsors for project success.

When you working with multiple projects, clients, and deliverables, you may need to track each project task, activities that you can give assurance to your client for project success. Obviously you need a tracking tool that make help in this regard. Here you can find the project tracking tool, even multiple project / multiple task tracking excel tool which may fulfill your requirement for your project.

How to use this project tracking template?

Most of the businesses, as well individuals are using the very famous applicable, is Microsoft Excel. This is very flexible as well having an advance tool that may help you to organize your data well. Hence, we tried to prepare the template for multiple project tracking template with excel. Now, you can see how this template will work, and how to use it:

Project Name:

This is very common and essential field for the project tracking template. For project name, I use a project names, that once there are many rows filled, make it very easy to choose the Filter Drop Down arrow, and quickly filter on just the projects I want to see.

Project Status:

This field is very important for the ensure about status of the project. Where your project going? you can judge with the project status reporting. Hence, here you can see the status of the project with multiple project tracking template. This status field may help you to track the project status by filtering the starting date, due date and current date status. It is easy to maintain the field, when the current date is before the due date, mean your project status is "running project task".

Date completed:

Enter date in month/day/year format -- Excel will write out the full day, date.
if you'd like a different date format -- highlight the column, right click and select Format Cells where you can click the Number Tab and select Date and choose the date format you prefer.
You can use the Filter drop down arrow in the date completed heading to quickly filter on a specific date or set of dates that I want to view.

Project Task / Sub- tasks:

This template may help one step deep analysis for your project. This field can help to track each project task as well sub-task of the project. You can enter the details of the sub-task; you may get the status on time.

Description of tasks

Here you can describe name or description of specific work item. You can use this description in a way where every week, you can easily copy and paste this column into a status report.
You have to enter everything on yours to do list as an item in Description column.
When new things pop up, you have this list to park things in until the right time to work on them.
To just see to do list, you may filter the Date Completed column to only show blanks. If Date Completed = blank, then it's an item that still needs to be done.
After the filter to show to do list, you can sort on the Project column, by clicking the Filter Drop down arrow, and choosing Sort A to Z. Then you can see what I need to work on grouped by project.

Due date:

Enter date in month/day/year format -- Excel will write out the full day, date.
If you'd like a different date format -- highlight the column, right click and select Format Cells where you can click the Number Tab and select Date and choose the date format you prefer.
You can use this field to put yours to Do list into some as semblance of order. Even you can easily filter on this Due Date column, Sort Oldest to Newest and quickly view and prioritize my list in order.

Start Time:

For start time and end time, the time format is set to 12H showing AM/PM. You can change the time format if you prefer.
The trick to entering data into these cells is you can enter "8 am" and it will resolve to 8:00 AM to speed things up.
But, if you only enter "8" it resolves to 12:00 AM as "8" is not understood.

End Time:

Usually, end time field is same entry point as start time. For the end time you have to format use set to 12H will be showing AM/PM. Even you can change as your comfort.

Time Worked:

The time worked is auto you do not need to anything with it. When you are entering start time and end time, this field will be automatically calculating the value by minus the time scale through formulations. Hence, leave this field as it is.

Estimated Hours:

You don't need to enter anything into Time Worked cell.

Time worked is a calculated field based on what you enter in Start time and End time.
This cell should be automatically calculated for you.
If it is not, you can copy = [@ [End Time]]- [@ [Start time]]
into the cells in this column, and then it should automatically calculate.

Notes:

Here you can put brief description of the important point which can concern with project task. This notes may helpful to understand that may have associated with individual project task.

Next Steps:

Usually, each task is associated or obvious relationship with another task. Each project tasks must be in sequence, hence when you are entering any task, you have to know which is the next step or upcoming task. This is very important to describing next step to describing it.