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November 5, 2024
Project Management

Project status report

Keep stakeholders informed with Retable's project status report spreadsheet template, an essential tool for transparently tracking progress, challenges, and milestones. This spreadsheet template simplifies reporting, ensuring consistent updates and clear communication across all project phases.

Project status report spreadsheet template

πŸ“Œ To copy and customize the project status report spreadsheet template to your own Retable dashboard, click the "Copy to workspace" button in the upper right corner of the template!

Columns of the project status report spreadsheet template

  • Phase: It's a select column type. Indicates the current phase of each project task, such as 'Initiation', 'Planning', 'Execution', etc. You can add more phase options.
  • Task Description: It's a text column type. Here, you can find the description of each project, which provide a detailed explanation for each of them.
  • Assigned to: It's a select column type. The name listed here represents who is responsible for each task. You can change this column type to "Collaborator" to easily assign tasks to your teammates.
  • Start date: It's a calendar column type. Here you can find the start date of the projects. You can change the date format by customizing this column.
  • End date: It's a calendar column type. Here you can find the deadline for the project completion. You can change the date format by customizing this column.
  • Priority: It's a select column type. Indicates the priority each project, such as 'High', 'Medium', 'Low', etc. You can add more priority option.
  • Status: It's a select column type. Indicates the current stage of each task of the project, such as 'Done', 'In Progress', 'Planned', etc. You can add more status option.
  • Approval Required (Y/N): It's a select column type. Indicates the approval requirement status of each task of the project with Y (yes) and N (no).
  • Notes:Β It's a text column type and you can your notes and comments about each project to this column.

Retable's project status report spreadsheet template is designed to streamline your simple project reporting processes, making it easier to manage and track from project status to phases.

Views of the project status report spreadsheet template

The view types of your project status report spreadsheet template are designed to offer different perspectives and ways to interact with your projects. Here's a brief explanation of each view:

Grid view (default):

This view presents the projects in a traditional, Excel like, spreadsheet format, where each row represents a different project and the columns represent the various attributes of each project, such as status, priority, start date, etc. It's the most detailed and comprehensive view, suitable for editing and entering data collaboratively.

Kanban view:

There are 2 kanban views in this simple project plan spreadsheet template.

  • Phase Kanban
  • Status Kanban

Kanban view shows projects as dynamic cards on a Kanban board, allowing you to visualize and manage your project workflow. Each Kanban card represents a project and can be moved across columns representing different stages of the project task management process (e.g., Completed, In Progress, Planned etc.). This view helps track progress and manage projects easily.

Phase Kanban
Status Kanban

Calendar view:

Calendar view automatically shows the dates in your table on a calendar format. If your spreadsheet has multiple date columns (ex; start date & end date) you can automatically create date ranges in your calendar view. You can also select the columns that you want to show on your calendar.

Chart view

There are 3 chart views in this simple project plan spreadsheet template.

  • Phase chart (Pie chart)
  • Status chart (Bar chart)
  • Priority chart (Pie chart)

Chart view is one of the Retable views that project managers need most and helps you quickly visualize your data and get meaningful reports from your data. Retable offers four different chart types: line, area, bar and pie. So you can easily visualize your data in real-time.

Phase chart (Pie chart)
Status chart (Bar chart)
Priority chart (Pie chart)

Retable's advanced and customizable data views can be used depending on your particular project management needs, whether that's detailed data entry, visual data management, project reporting or quick status checks.

Retable's project status report spreadsheet template is a ready-to-use spreadsheet template for efficiently creating your project reports, enabling you to organize and progress each project from start to end with ease. With options like Grid, Kanban, Calendar and Chart views, you can customize your project reports to suit your unique needs.

Ready to explore even more ways to streamline your project reporting processes? Dive into Retable's extensive spreadsheet templates archive and find the perfect fit to elevate your project management to the next level. Discover Retable's templates today and transform your tasks into impactful projects with just a few clicks!