Project management dashboard

A simple definition says that typical software for managing projects has a dashboard that displays all critical information about a project on one screen allowing project stakeholders to easily review basic project metrics such as schedules, tasks and issues.

Project management dashboard is a layer between your project team and project tasks. It is a project monitoring tool that allows your team to be aware of both personal and group assignments and to review status of project tasks. That shareware software will help managers to track project progress, focus on separate assignments and measure team performance. You can organize and implement your projects by developing project plans and making assignments.

One of the most popular examples is a dashboard created in MS Excel software. Project management dashboard in Excel has a spreadsheet-based view that represents project data in cells and rows. You can use Excel Diagrams and Formula Constructor to make your Excel template more demonstrative and complete. However, MS Excel dashboard has several disadvantages that make PM with Excel inconvenient. First of all, MS Excel is not developed to manage projects but it is for making calculations in cells and rows of spreadsheets. Secondly, it does not give functionality for sharing information between users. MS Excel will be convenient for data calculation but not for PM.

Obviously, Microsoft Excel software should not be used for managing projects. You need to find PM software that combines free tools for monitoring project tasks and measuring performance. Such software should include functionality for managing projects throughout the entire project lifecycle (from initiation to closure), providing you with open source tools to monitor and track project performance.

CenrtiQS is a PM and TM program that provides a collaborative framework to enhance task management processes, team collaboration, and information recording. It delivers project management dashboards that allow creating relevant reports on basic metrics, such as tasks, schedules, budgets, and performance. CentriQS uses a client-server technology that links project teams and creates a centralized database. Members of your project team can access such a database over LAN and Internet.

CentriQS features the Dashboard view which lets you create custom dashboards for your project. For example, in your dashboard you can display current projects, related tasks, and task analytics.