Excel can be a lot of help when you are looking to get some work done and to keep a track of how much of the overall task you have achieved and how much of the task is left. Excel can be used in many ways and tracking tasks through excel can help a lot, save time and increase your efficiency.
The kind of project you want to use the task tracker for,
Depending upon the type of task that you would like to track, the task tracker can be made in a number of ways. Templates for many kinds of task trackers are also available and one could download them and start using them, but if you want a task tracker for a custom project, you can make one for yourself on excel.
Creating your own task tracker
One can make many task trackers, and they are not very difficult, still one has to learn a bit about excel when making a perfect task tracker for their own project. Task trackers can be made for both simple projects, and also for complex projects in which many tasks have to be recorded to know about the overall progress.
In a simple task list, you can place the following in your tracker,
- Start date
- Due date
- Assigned to
- Complete percentage
- Priority
These are some of the columns that can be added to a simple progress tracking sheet of a task. The name of the person the task has been assigned to can be added to check the overall output of a specific person as well as their contribution to the whole project.
The date can be added and separate columns for both starting and the due date can be added to the task sheet. To check if all the task has been completed within time and not delayed.
The complete percentage can be added to a task as a whole, if there are more than one people working on a project or in case there is more than one task to a complete project, a completion percentage can be helpful to track the percentage at which the task has been completed up to.
A column for task type can also be added to know the kind of task assigned to a person. For example, you can also track more than one task in one task tracker, like recruitment, management, and sales.